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...Sunday the Israeli government announced an agreement with Lebanon for direct negotiations about the withdrawal of Israeli troops, as well as the consideration of political arrangements between the two countries. Israel, which had been under intense U.S. pressure, gave up its demands that such talks occur in both Beirut and Jerusalem. If Israeli, Syrian and P.L.O. troops actually begin to pull out of Lebanon, Reagan will be in a better position to pursue his West Bank peace proposal...
...tragic death of Korean Boxer Kim Duk Koo [Nov. 29]: Let's not point a finger at boxing. Perhaps more than any other sport, boxing is a microcosm of life in which the lessons of victory and defeat are taught in brutal fashion. Casualties are bound to occur, just as in other professions where pressures can lead to ulcers, alcoholism and suicide. Boxing is one more example of humans striving for a dream...
...good an opportunity to refuse" Young spent the summer after his sophomore year in Brazil working on the project while he was there he took photographs of the many other endemic species of eastern Brazil, species which because of the region's isolation do not occur anywhere else in the world. The WWF estimates that 53% of animals in this rain forest are endemic, and so it is important that the remnants of the rain forest be preserved to stave off total extinction. The WWF chose the muriqui as the subject of their documentary because their plight is symbolic...
...further improvement in the 1980s. But they are not likely to rebel openly. Lacking any genuine forum in which to express dissatisfaction, Soviet consumers will probably do little more than grumble. Andropov, with his KGB background, may deal more harshly with strikes or other eruptions of anger that might occur. Says Historian Walter Laqueur: "Expect tighter discipline rather than liberalism, but expect some economic reforms...
...Soviet accumulation of nuclear arms represents something far more menacing. The weapons proliferated so rapidly and so massively during the 18 years of Brezhnev's reign that they conveyed the impression of a juggernaut. American deployments during the same period, while formidable in their own right, tended to occur more in fits and starts...