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...principal figures in the Carter campaign and White House were no more sure of how they would have reacted. "It would sound precious and self-righteous to say I would have turned them down," said former Press Secretary Jody Powell, "so I'm not going to say it. I think and hope that I would have...
...undernourished in South Africa; 3 million in Ethiopia are totally dependent on emergency supplies. In India, where crops throughout 75% of the land have been ruined by a dry spell that in one state has lasted five years, Prime Minister Indira Gandhi has had to spend $600 million in precious foreign-exchange reserves for food imports this year alone. Indonesia, which finally achieved self-sufficiency in rice last year, will need to import 2 million tons of rice this year at a cost of $700 million. Zimbabwe, which enjoys so regular a crop surplus that it exported food to twelve...
...with bulletproof windows. At a stop along the way, as a group of bedraggled soldiers stood around him, Arafat said of the mutiny, "It is over. It is over." Again he blamed Gaddafi for the trouble, declaring that the Libyan leader "thought his money and his petroleum were more precious than the blood of our martyrs." Predicting that P.L.O. forces in Lebanon would be subjected to a terrible bombardment by Israeli artillery and aircraft, he told his men, "You must show the same steadfastness you demonstrated in Beirut, because if you can survive the first assault, you will be victorious...
...solution to some of the region's longstanding problems. As of last September, the P.L.O. had been defeated, the Syrians had been virtually disarmed and the Soviets discredited in their ability to influence events. The U.S. responded with an admirable plan, the Reagan initiative, but then allowed precious months to slip by as the Israelis dallied, the Soviets rearmed the Syrians, the P.L.O. recovered part of its strength, and Jordan's King Hussein tried to decide whether to risk negotiating with Israel and the U.S. The moment of opportunity passed, and with it the Reagan initiative. In time...
...Français, in Wheeling, Ill., use them as garnishes for meat and game or in a cream sauce. Owner-Author George Lang of Manhattan's Cafe des Artistes insists on serving them as a separate course sauteed in olive oil or butter: "They are too precious to use as a vegetable...