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Doomsday Prospect. Under close analysis, the Kissinger statement did not seem to warrant such a reaction. In a sense, it merely expressed the obvious. It is hard to see how Kissinger could have ruled out military action absolutely under any circumstances. A sovereign power must retain the option of using force if and when its survival, or that of its essential allies, is at stake. "Any individual, or country, carries in the back of his mind the idea that if his life or livelihood is threatened, he will use all the means at his disposal to protect himself," observed Harvard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: The Intervention Issue | 1/20/1975 | See Source »

What billions of petrodollars will not buy is Israel, a sovereign nation, and this must be made abundantly clear to the Palestinian people. Arafat wishes to complete what Hitler and Stalin were unable to: the wholesale extermination of the Jewish people. This cannot be tolerated. But will the world wake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forum, Dec. 2, 1974 | 12/2/1974 | See Source »

Clearly there are two primary and essential steps that must be taken toward negotiations between Israel and the Arab states, and between Israel and the Palestinians. All Arab governments and the Palestine Liberation Organization should declare their willingness to recognize Isreal's right to exist as a sovereign state...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Mideast War | 11/27/1974 | See Source »

...many of his listeners had in fact once been hunted men-and had hunted other men themselves. Terrorism is universally repugnant to standards of human decency, but in the past 25 years, sadly enough, it has been essential to the birth of many of the world's now sovereign nations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: When Terrorists Become Respectable | 11/25/1974 | See Source »

...hopeful students who apply. The Shah's immediate circle of advisers is also surprisingly small. Among them are Premier Hoveida, 54, a dapper man who has held his job nine years; Hushang Ansary, 46, Minister of Economic Affairs and Finance; Amir Assadullah Alam, 55, who acts as the sovereign's right hand as minister of the court; and Jamshid Amuzegar, 51, who until recently served as the Shah's voice and goad at OPEC meetings. Amuzegar last April was shifted to Interior Minister, partly so that he might help ensure more honest elections than have been held...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRAN: Oil, Grandeur and a Challenge to the West | 11/4/1974 | See Source »

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