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IDEALLY, a way out of the South African mess does exist. Power sharing with a gradual evolution toward majority rule would allow Blacks to learn the skills necessary to run a country and perhaps build up a modicum of trust between Blacks and whites that would ease the latter's paranoia. Realistically, though, such a change is simply not forthcoming. The situation is already too polarized to allow a meeting of interests on a common ground. And the West is left with the choice between two singularly unattractive policy options...
...Nieman Fellows receive fellowships so that the journalists may go home and practice the craft of journalism with some modicum of freedom. In Korea, it's a special case of government oppression," says Thomson However, there are journalists from similar political climates in the Nieman program--from Poland and China--but Thomson says that in Korea's case. "We like to avoid countries ... that are closing down...
...whether to open new consulates or install touch-tone dialing on the hot line. Those matters have their significance, but only when they are part of an overall improvement in relations. Similarly, high-level dialogue on cooperation in the Third World is possible only when there is a modicum of harmony between the First and Second. That depends on the core issue, which is the management of the military competition...
...Greens leave not, as Louis so righteously states, "injected a needed bit of sanity into the nuclear debate," but have replaced policy with sheer folly. A nuclear free world is certainly to be desired, but no one with even a modicum of intelligence expects that we shall soon (or perhaps ever) be able to achieve it. Our best hope is negotiated reductions in the strengths of both sides--a bilateral approach that will maintain the balance in Europe, not the unilateralist, pie-in-the-sky dreaming of the idealistic but misguided Greens. Eric Stockel...
Pipeline goes against the grain "This is kind of like a fight inside a family," said Ronald Reagan at his press conference last week. French Foreign Minister Claude Cheysson, who had likened the feud to a "progressive divorce," also tried to restore a modicum of household harmony. Said he: "In every good marriage, at times one talks about a divorce." After the transatlantic clash provoked by Washington's embargo on technology for the Soviet gas pipeline from Siberia to Western Europe, both the U.S. and its allies assessed the damage, found it considerable and decided to downplay the disagreement...