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Surveys of New Yorkers as they left the voting booths showed that Jews, who made up one-fourth of the electorate, deserted Carter by nearly 4 to 1, largely because of the U.N. vote on Israeli settlements. But the Jewish vote only swelled Kennedy's victory margin; he won enough Roman Catholic votes to offset his weak showing among Protestants, so he would have beaten Carter even if Jewish voters had boycotted the primary entirely. As it was, the Jewish vote was unusually light, meaning that many Jews could stomach neither Kennedy nor Carter and stayed home...
...During the rainy season last year, we estimated that one-fourth of the country was under our control and one-fourth under Vietnamese control. The rest was contested. Since then, the Vietnamese have made some breakthroughs into our areas, but we have made some breakthroughs into theirs. The most important thing is that our areas of control are now spread widely across the whole country...
...conservative groups also worry about the disruptive influence of some 2 million foreign workers in a country one-fourth the size of the U.S. that has a native population of only 4 million to 5 million. The foreigners include Egyptians, Palestinians, Pakistanis, Thais, Filipinos and Koreans-and about 1 million North Yemenis. The Saudis need the North Yemenis, both as guest workers and as allies, and often talk about the need to defend their country from the pro-Moscow, Marxist regime in South Yemen. Nonetheless, the Saudis know that the Yemenis resent Riyadh's oil wealth, and that...
...1960s, then quintupled in the 1970s, from $6 billion to $32 billion last year, thus holding down the deficit caused by $70 billion in oil imports. The U.S. now exports more wheat, corn and other coarse grains (barley, oats, sorghum) than all the rest of the world combined. About one-fourth of America's 413 million acres of crop land are planted for export, and foreign demand is expected to keep on growing for the foreseeable future...
Nearly three out of four Americans also disapproved of Senator Edward Kennedy's criticism of previous American policies in Iran and of the Shah, who, he said, "ran one of the most violent regimes in the history of mankind." Was it wrong for the U.S. Government to support "antidemocratic forces" when it seemed in the American interest to do so? Forty-nine percent answered no, 36% yes. Only one-fourth of those surveyed believed that Ayatullah Khomeini's accusations against the U.S. for supporting the Shah were justified...