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...followers are worried that confrontation countries like Egypt and Syria are increasingly more concerned with their own peace negotiations than with the Palestinian problem. The result has been a subtle erosion of Arafat's relatively moderate approach, based on a political solution and encouraged by Sadat, and slight gains for the "rejection front" that is fostered by hard-liners like George Habash, head of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. Should the split deepen, it could divide the Arab world and endanger Sadat's position...
...university we caught slight of a group going into a dorm and we ran up and tried to follow them in nonchalantly. One girl asked us where we were going, though, so we told an abridged story and she said to sneak down into the television room and sleep on the couches. The damn t.v. wouldn't shut off so we were stuck with the late news, the Star Spangled Banner and then the snow for the rest of the night. I went down the street to a combination Deli/Sub-shop/Bar-and-Grille, but there wasn't anybody upstairs so I went downstairs...
Under no circumstances, in Ford's view, would he allow the Cambodians to hold American hostages for months. He believed that the Khmer Rouge were capable of brutal and irrational actions. Thus in the opinion of Ford and Kissinger, the possibility of a slight over-response was a risk worth taking...
...tinge of self-mockery--the impatience of a person who takes certain things for granted, maybe--was typical: the same slight aloofness you sense when Smithies says he spends his free time "rowing boats and toiling in my garden," as though the joys of domesticity in Belmont, like England, are a little too structured for his taste. But that didn't stop the CIA letter from kicking up a minor storm...
...LIKELIHOOD of bringing to justice American war criminals--without whom there would be no Vietnamese refugees--is slight. But this need not mean that America should, out of guilt, and any and all Vietnamese asking for political asylum, including those who, under whatever circumstances, are guilty of atrocities...