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There was much more to be done in the attempt to achieve stability in the Middle East-more than either force or summit conference could accomplish. But the overriding fact was that, largely because the imminent danger of Lebanon and Jordan had been postponed, the pundits, commentators and statesmen were afforded the luxury of second guessing and peaceful discussion...
...United States cannot be one of the two great world powers and refuse to act like a great power. To ignore appeals for help from supporters like Lebanon, to watch unmoved as friendly statesmen are mobbed and countries like Iraq are convulsed, to make no effort to reassure other friends in trouble like the Jordanians would be to abdicate the role that history and our wealth and energy have thrust upon...
...WHILE statesmen and strongmen cope with readily visible political crises, the economic tides that lift or swamp them often begin their flow unnoticed. Across the Atlantic, the European boom that refused to bust during the U.S.'s recession months is now threatened by a downturn. Across the Pacific, Red China, out to dominate Asia politically and economically, has declared open economic war on Japan, perfecting an art in which the Japanese themselves once excelled: dumping cheap goods onto Southeast Asian markets. The deep-running courses of these economic tides are analyzed in FOREIGN NEWS: Threat of Recession and Squeeze...
...virgins and statesmen, your honor
...reassuring to learn of the truly simple life that one of our statesmen, with his wife, enjoys, if only occasionally, in a completely primitive setting by recharging his depleted energies in such fashion. Such men's motives are to be trusted, for they are going to the source of life for their strength...