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...Association of Southeast Asian Na tions (ASEAN) and other anti-Soviet countries to back the Khmer Rouge and its shadow government, called Democratic Kampuchea in the United Nations. The U.S. and other Western countries have gone along, but with extreme distaste. The reason: Democratic Kampuchea is the outgrowth of Pol Pot's four-year reign of terror, in which as many as 3 mil lion Cambodians are believed to have been murdered or starved to death before the Vietnamese moved in to stop the slaughter...
Rebellion is a natural outgrowth of the Polish character-ebullient, romantic, ready to defend national pride at the drop of a kapelusz, and ironic enough to look forward to a potent drink right afterward. Sums up a Polish woman: "We can only be compared with the Irish." A Western diplomat who has served in Poland puts it differently: "The Poles are a bunch of anarchists." That may be overstating matters, but it is true that the Poles bend less willingly to Soviet domination than any other satellite. The Catholic Church, which has nurtured the Polish spirit when outside powers have...
...committee, an outgrowth of a conference of students from the Ivy League and Stanford which met at Harvard last spring, will study the Ivy League colleges, Williams, and possibly Stanford or the University of Chicago...
...phenomenon is an outgrowth of increased political activity by women at all levels of government. At last count, nearly 14,300 women held over 9% of all local, state and federal elective posts, compared with 5% in 1975. Says Janyce Katz, an official of the National Women's Political Caucus: "Women are coming out of the ranks." They have been helped by the breakdown in party organizations; instead of smoke-filled rooms, most nominees are now chosen in open primaries. And they are finding a new willingness on the part of local groups and national party leaders to contribute...
...VIEWING President Carter's statements on the war between Iran and Iraq as a scary outgrowth of the "Carter doctrine", the majority opinion ignores the fact that Carter has actually responded calmly to the fighting. The opinion also undervalues the economic interests of the United States in the Persian Gulf, and overstates the belligerence of Carter's position...