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...P.L.O. concede that while the organization has not yet modified the strident rhetoric of its 13-year-old charter, recent deliberations and decisions have become more moderate in tone. At its March meeting in Cairo, for instance, the Palestine National Council renewed its call for a state on any soil given up by Israel, but dropped a clause added to a similar resolution in 1974 that designated such a state as a base for further struggle against Israel. Time and again, P.L.O. leaders, including Yasser Arafat, have said they would settle for a Palestinian entity on any Arab territory given...
Aaron Castill '80, a member of the class, said yesterday the group plans "to study soil types on what used to be a farm area." Castill added that he will probably end up "eating trees" by the end of the trip...
...confident, however, that Carter will not turn the screws any tighter. Reason: the influence of the Jewish lobby and Israel's powerful friends in Congress. Says one Israeli official: "If he tries to pressure us, there will be a battle royal, and it will be fought on American soil. I'm not sure we won't win." If the Israelis felt deserted by their only ally, they might conceivably launch a last-ditch Middle East war in order to cripple their Arab enemies-even though their antagonists cannot be forever subdued militarily, and there is always...
...Soil, Land and the Human Environment." Nope, not offered this year...
...becoming the profit base of influential commercial entrepeneurs--traditional landed elites, city-based agricultural speculators, and foreign corporations." Studies show that large landholders who use traditional labor-intensive techniques tend to be much less efficient than their smaller counterparts, who draw as much as possible out of the soil. Large landowners who mechanize their holdings force peasants off the land, creating a new army of unemployed on the edges of cities. Agricultural speculators buy up the land of small farmers to plant crops they think will receive high prices the next season; when there is a glut, they stop planting...