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...President sent a cold letter to the festivities, the contents of which were not off the record. "The United States," he wrote, "has no more urgent goal than achieving and preserving world peace and security. Let us seek ways to cooperate in reducing international tensions and creating a safer world." The State Department got on the bandwagon by adding that "Soviet expansionism" had raised "the honest question of whether the Soviet Union was as committed to peace...
...intent on maintaining the unity of the P.L.O., he never stated clearly enough what his real aims were. For every politician there comes a time when he must decide whether to sacrifice a political concept to unity or risk a split." Arafat elected what seemed to be the safer course, but for Assad it was already too late. The Syrian President read the Arafat-Hussein maneuverings, even though they came to naught, as an attempt to usurp a right he has always claimed for himself, namely to be the Palestinians' strongest supporter...
...track the sub's movements. The mechanical mishap was I only the latest in a series of embarrassing setbacks for the Soviet fleet. In 1981 a diesel powered Soviet sub snooping in a restricted zone off the Swedish coast ran aground and had to be pulled to a safer anchor-age by Swedish tugboats. According to U.S. intelligence, another nuclear-powered attack sub sank in deep water last summer off the Siberian peninsula of Kamchatka...
LAST FRIDAY the Labor Department issued an emergency regulation which slashed by almost 75 percent the amount of asbestos workers may be exposed to in asbestos-related industries. Labor Secretary Raymond Donovan said as many as 375,000 workers will be safer now, predicting that as a result of the regulation, an average of three deaths per 1,000 workers will be saved...
Mobilization members may counter that there is no national consensus on nuclear arms, that no research on nuclear weapons--even that work that would make them safer, or better able to defer a Soviet attack--is good. Voters who disagree with the Reagan Administration's arms policies should realize that by supporting the referendum they are going beyond simply registering that dissatisfaction. Six leading candidates for the Democratic nomination for president have endorsed a nuclear freeze, but the Nuclear Free Cambridge proposal gives up hope for national change. Supporters are giving up on arms control agreements. They are saying that...