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Although those who fail to register face prison terms of five years and fines up to $10.000, opponents predict that at least 10 per cent of the four million men affected will refuse to register...
Moreover, the Western nations are increasingly at the mercy of political events they cannot control. OPEC production could be sharply reduced or cut off entirely by Soviet incursions into the Persian Gulf, internal revolutions like Iran's or the disintegration of the Israeli-Egyptian peace treaty. "Nobody can predict when and how the governmental, social and cultural systems in the various countries will change," writes Levy, "but change they will, and, more likely than not, by convulsions or revolutions...
Will Moscow's two-track policy of Russification and Sovietization enable the U.S.S.R. to survive as the world's last multinational empire? Some Western experts, with more than a touch of wishful thinking in their speculation, predict that the U.S.S.R. will come apart along its Muslim seams in the south and east. Others, including National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski, also look for trouble in Eastern Europe, particularly in Brzezinski's native Poland. Columbia University's Seweryn Bialer agrees. Until now, he says, the Soviets have been fortunate that uprisings have broken out in only one country at a time...
...effect. It threatened to topple the center-left coalition of Christian Democratic Prime Minister Francesco Cossiga, one of the most promising governments in Rome in many years. It transformed this week's regional and local elections from a ho-hum event into a hard-fought and hard-to-predict contest. And it seemed certain to give the powerful Communists a valuable opposition issue for some time to come...
...latest round of activity caught scientists by surprise. Though volcanologists have been able to predict almost to the hour when the volcanoes of the Hawaiian Islands will erupt, Mount St. Helens presents a more difficult problem for would-be prognosticators. The molten rock, or magma, underneath the Washington volcano is a thicker, silica-rich material (unlike the less viscous molten basalt of the Hawaiian chain); more pressure must build up before the hot gases trapped within it are released. Thus the mountain erupts infrequently and violently...