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Huntington said that while the Soviets had "military equivalence" with the U.S., they were far from being "global equals" with the U.S. in international affairs in terms of technology, political and diplomatic influence, and economic progress. The "illusion" of such general parity which has come to dominate Soviet-American relations in world affairs may someday soon lead to Russian military intervention in some regional conflict and subsequent American retaliation, he added...
...definitely one open to international adjudication; the League of Nations granted the South African government the right to administer the territory in 1919, declaring Namibia a "sacred trust of civilization" and requiring South Africa "to promote to the utmost the material and moral well being of and the social progress of the inhabitants of the territory." Instead, over a period of 60 years, South Africa has steadily moved to impose ever harsher apartheid regulations on Nambia's native population...
...Charles Diggs (D-Mich.) told a Congressional hearing, "Independence in Namibia is now inevitable and the implications for long-term U.S. access to resources in Namibia...are clear. Certainly a majority-ruled, independent Namibia would be mindful of what action the United States is taking now to expedite progress toward independence in their country...
Armor has often testified in court hearings about mandatory busing plans. His personal hope for further progress boils down to a mixture of mandated school improvements-for instance, a court-ordered increase in the number of "magnet" schools to draw qualified whites and blacks from all corners of a city-and vigorously promoted voluntary school integration. The only hopeful example he gives, however, is San Diego. Using a voluntary system, the city has kept the level of white flight down (below 6% per year). But the increase in the actual number of whites and nonwhites going to school together...
...Progress towards peace suffered, a setback over the weekend, however, when Jordan's King Hussein said in a news conference that the Camp David proposals for Jordanian participation in peace negotiations are unacceptable "in the present form...