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...greatest and swiftest transfer of wealth in all history: the 13 OPEC countries earned $112 billion from the rest of the world last year. Because they could not begin to spend it all, they ran up a payments surplus of $60 billion. This sudden shift of money shook the whole fragile structure of the international financial system, severely weakened the already troubled economies of the oil-importing nations and gave great new political strength to the exporters...
...height shook and wind leaned...
Another senseless round of terror and counterterror shook the Middle East last week. It began last Tuesday morning when salvos of 3.5-in. rockets crashed into buildings that housed offices of the Palestine Liberation Organization in downtown Beirut. The main P.L.O. headquarters for Lebanon, on the wide, busy boulevard called the Corniche Mazraa, was wrecked, as was the P.L.O. research center near the Rue Sadat. The office responsible for coordinating al-Fatah's covert terrorist activities inside Israel narrowly escaped heavy damage when the four rockets that had obviously been aimed at it landed instead on a nearby empty...
...sense it's certainly discouraging that students should still be organizing freedom marches 15 years after the first ones shook the United States, five years after black people's struggle for full equality in this country seemed to have moved beyond the defensive measures of the early '60s to a forthright attack on the system that denied them their freedom. But in another sense the fact that Saturday's march won't be the first of its kind is encouraging, for experience shows that it can work. When Southern school systems were forced to accept racial integration, schoolchildren--especially black...
Accumulated Rage. In the town's savage mood, some journalists also found themselves the objects of anger. Dan Drooz, reporting for TIME, was harassed for 20 minutes by one man, who shook him and shouted over and over, "Tell [Yasser] Arafat we got his message! Now look at that dead shit over there and ask him if he got ours!" Later, Drooz found the man weeping on a lawn opposite the house where the four citizens of Bet She'an-like 59 other Israelis in 25 earlier raids this year-had been killed...