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...could be more prudent not even to try to unstick the Middle East impasse, Kissinger believes: "It may be better not to get involved than to go there and have things go wrong." Is there no hope? Says Kissinger: "You've got to find some solution which balances the Arab need for self-esteem with Israeli security. I'm not sure it exists...
...Stone concludes that the sage, tired of life, did not wish vindication and went out of his way to antagonize the jury. Among other things, Socrates boasted that the oracle at Delphi had said of him, "No man was more free than I, or more just, or more prudent." As Stone comments, "Socrates looks more like a picador enraging a bull than a defendant trying to mollify a jury...
...dominion of Ethiopia's ignorant rulers. The weather is the only calamity not directly caused by Colonel Mengistu . . . and his cronies. Their Russian advisers have taught them to run vast state farms that produce no food. Imitating Stalin's anti-kulak terror, they have shot 'hoarders and saboteurs' prudent enough to store grain . . . Help for the starving may make some of them suffer more, and reinforce the grip of the government that caused them to starve. Yet something must be done...
...When the future is unclear as it is, it strikes me to be prudent to have a reasonably conservative investment position," Cabot said, explaining Harvard Management's increased reliance on interest-bearing bonds. "The possibility of a recession" makes for an unstable investment climate," he added...
...Iranian Silkworm missile strikes on the oil tankers Sungari and Sea Isle City two weeks ago. The Sungari is U.S.-owned, and the Sea Isle City is one of eleven Kuwaiti tankers now flying the American flag. President Reagan called the 85-minute blitz of the oil platforms a "prudent yet restrained response" to Iranian aggression. Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger told a press briefing after the Navy action, "We consider the matter closed...