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...will bring to Saudi Arabia and the other oil-rich gulf states. TIME has learned that Khomeini told Khoeyniha not to be intimidated by the more moderate clergymen among the estimated 100,000 Iranian pilgrims. "Disobedience to you," asserted Khomeini, "is disobedience to me." Khomeini exhorted Khoeyniha to renew the power of Islam, "which profiteers and thinkers of warped thoughts have consigned to oblivion...
...Mitterrand government, which since coming to office in May 1981 has studiously avoided open conflict with the Reagan Administration. Said French Foreign Minister Claude Cheysson: "We no longer speak the same language. There is a remarkable incomprehension between Europe and the U.S." A recent French decision to renew arms sales to Nicaragua, despite a quiet pledge to Washington not to do so, has been widely interpreted as a signal of growing French pique over the sanctions...
...Britain might wreck any chance of a broad, long-term settlement that would have to involve Argentina. Such a defeat, the U.S. believes, could also precipitate the downfall of Argentina's ruling junta, leading to political chaos and revolving-door governments that might be even more prone to renew attacks on the islands. In addition, protracted hostilities would put an enormous drain on Britain's resources and on NATO, which would be deprived of British ships and troops...
Although the U.S. would prefer what Haig calls a more "robust" affirmation of the need for a military buildup, any variation of this formula will satisfy Washington. The Administration had considered calling on its allies to renew a collective pledge, first made in 1979, to increase defense spending by 3% per year. Haig, however, opposed such a numerical target because he believed it would be an unfair way to gauge the relative contributions of member nations, and over the past three years has led only to fruitless finger pointing. Washington dropped the idea. Besides, noted one high State Department official...
Your Essay will remind Americans that their philosophical heritage should be reconsidered. In 1837 Emerson wrote, "This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it." America could renew itself with some of Emerson's idealism...