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...their fear of the Chinese and their anger at the American tilt toward Peking, Soviets appear somewhat more sanguine about their ability to contain what some still call "the yellow peril" than they did a decade ago. Says Alexander Yakovlev, a leading Sinologist at Moscow's Institute for the Study of the Far East: "China does not have the military strength to threaten world peace on its own, and even the military and economic aid of the U.S. and other Western countries will not make a big difference...
...Afghan invasion, Edinburgh's Erickson says, "If Brezhnev had asked the general staff back in 1973: 'Can you carry off such a campaign?' the answer would have been no. Now the general staff says, 'We can.' This is a development that the Western alliance can ignore only at its peril...
...every crisis, whining for handouts or protection from the very competition that has made this system so productive." At the same time, workers want assured salary increases and consumers products that never break and never can be dangerously misused. Says General Motors Chairman Thomas A. Murphy: "There is that peril in our society, the unwillingness to take a reasonable risk...
Considering the increased peril that their lives are in, diplomats hardly enjoy hearing that their embassies and their duties are not as important as they once were. But a growing number of critics believe that many of the traditional forms and norms of diplomacy?and the role of the ambassador?are already not only out of date but possibly obsolescent. Italy's Ducci goes so far as to raise the possibility of abolishing permanent missions and replacing them with special roving legates, not unlike those of the 16th century. "An exchange of embassies between friendly countries is at worst superfluous...
Last November 35 nations, including the U.S., gathered in Geneva and signed a pact pledging to work together against this skyborne peril. President Carter has authorized a $10 million annual outlay for a ten-year research program on acid rain, which he considers one of the two gravest environmental threats of the decade (the other: increasing levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere from the burning of fossil fuels...