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They hear African leaders, along with other Third World advocates, calling for a new international economic order, which will operate in favor of the world's poorer peoples. But inside their nations the churches are hard pressed to find evidence that any new order will benefit the poorest of the poor, whose lot is worsening daily. This situation has led the churches to begin asking themselves whether their present engagement in African development is not detrimental to the point of being anti-development, i.e., anti-social justice, anti-self reliance and anti-a decent human life for all in society...
...book on "the fall of public man," would perhaps see the White House problem as part of the larger trouble of a people who no longer believe that their public personalities should be based on what they would like to be rather than what they truly are. We are poorer, says Sennett, because we have abandoned control and restraint. Wearing a mask, he insists, can be the essence of civility. Carter sometimes seems to go in the opposite direction to show the world he will not live up to tradition. He would not wear his tuxedo for the state dinner...
...leader of the South's resistance to efforts by the depressed Northern states to shift federal spending programs from the Sunbelt to the Snowbelt. Explains a Policies Board official: "We have to defend our region." Indeed, precisely that mood is spawning an unmistakable increase in a kind of petulant, poorer-than-thou sectionalism in many parts...
...Indians $1.7 million annually for each of the next 15 years. The Indians would also drop claims for three million acres of land owned by large corporations in return for 300,000 acres of average-value timber land and the option to buy 200,000 acres of somewhat poorer-quality land...
...continue their efforts to keep oil prices stable. Last month Saudi Arabia was a sponsor of the six-month lid on price increases that the OPEC nations approved at their conference in Caracas. Further, the President wants to urge the Saudi leaders to use their pursestring powers over poorer Arab countries to drum up more support for Middle East peace negotiations in Cairo. Khalid and Fahd will almost certainly seek assurances that the U.S. will press Israel for a solution that is fair to all Arabs, including the Palestinians...