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...unhappy about his continuing border battles with Iraq, a staunch ally of Syria. In both Amman and Cairo, the Shah offered aid to his hosts. With U.S. approval, he presented Hussein with a squadron of F-5A fighters being phased out of the Iranian air force for newer U.S. jets. In Cairo, the Shah's experts worked out final details of a massive billion-dollar Iranian investment in Egyptian petrochemicals which will provide sorely needed fertilizer for both domestic use and export as well as plastics and synthetic fibers...
...supporting the U.S. position, French ambassador Louis de Guiringaud also charged that "a private club seems to be emerging, monopolizing certain areas" of U.N. decisionmaking. It was, in effect, fair warning and a plea for more fairness from the older nations to the newer ones if the U.N. is to survive, let alone prosper as a force in world affairs...
According to Roths child, dying industries, like dying stars, flare out before shrinking into lifeless lumps. American auto manufacturers are now investing abroad and exporting in an attempt to saturate the world market. This effort has been only partially successful, for American firms are losing international ground to newer, more dynamic companies like Nissan and Volkswagen. As American automakers explore abroad, they ignore their domestic obligations: urban small-car designs are pigeon-holed and monstrous recreational vehicles are forced forward; mass transit is suppressed while car use becomes more expensive and unpleasant; pollution control is ignored until the government threatens...
...ORPHEUM last weekend, during the first one-and-a-half hour show Zappa played "commercial," responding to screams from teenyboppers for recent tunes like "Yellow Snow" and "Penguin in Bondage" and established a fine rapport with what was basically a rock and roll crowd. His newer, funkier melodies flowed together in an extended medley which included a few unrecorded instrumentals and vocals ("Pajama People") and some songs for the "old folks" ("I'm Not Satisfied" and "Dog Breath...
...blue. The sonata ends without a resolution. It is as though the old hymns couldn't stand against the bombast of fate knocking on the door. It is as though Ives had admitted that his father's world was gone, and that he had not yet tested newer, more specific radicalisms that might still work in the new world...