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...more concerned about and responsive to social unrest. That will be an exquisitely difficult policy to carry out. As several panelists noted, the U.S., under the best of circumstances, may suffer some further losses. But given enough will, patience and ingenuity, the U.S. has the strength to safeguard its vital interests in the crescent of crisis...
...Iran. No American has been allowed to inspect them for three weeks, in part because the Iranians fear an attempt to destroy the equipment to prevent any possibility of its falling into Soviet hands. But the Carter Administration privately admits that there is little it can do to safeguard the planes. "They are entirely in the hands of the Iranians," said a U.S. intelligence officer last week. "They bought them, and they own them...
...Congress should outline rules which a convention found unacceptable, the Supreme Court's judicial review prerogative remains a final safeguard against open conflict. The states, the convention, and Congress would almost certainly accept the Court's ruling; though many of its individual past decisions have been controversial, the Court's right to judge on constitutional issues has the weight of two centuries of tradition behind...
...prospect is the deterioration of U.S. influence in what National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski has called "the Arc of Crisis," a vast region of the Middle East and Asia Minor where instability invites Soviet adventurism. Saudi Arabia, in particular, has become increasingly skeptical of America's resolve to safeguard the Arc, and, according to some unconfirmed reports, has opened discreet diplomatic channels to Moscow. There is little chance that so virulent an anti-Communist state as Saudi Arabia would seriously consider any accommodation with the Soviets, but the very fact that it is talked about at all produces understandable...
...Soviet newspaper Izvestia yesterday charged that the appointment of Bakhtiar as prime minister, regarded by many as a pro-West moderate, was the result of U.S. "political machinations" designed to safeguard American interests in Iran...