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...part of his Administration's response to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, President Carter asked the Senate in January to suspend deliberation on the SALT II Treaty. The President was-and still is -committed to ratifying the treaty. But he recognized that SALT II was doomed to rejection if the Administration forced the issue. Better wait, Carter figured, until outrage over the Afghanistan invasion has died down-and until the Executive Branch is in a stronger position to press for ratification. That might mean after the November elections, when either a re-elected Carter or his successor would probably...
SETTLEMENTS. Israel insists on the right of Jews to settle anywhere in the occupied territories, refusing even to suspend its policy of building new settlements until the May 26 target date. The Egyptians oppose the settlements, but feel Israel should negotiate this issue with an autonomous Palestinian council...
...fear of further uprisings, a U.S. State Department official speculates, that the King last May granted new provisional liberties to the people. He announced that for the period of a year, he would suspend his constitutional right to censorship pending a national referendum, (the first direct country-wide vote in two decades, and only the second in Nepal's history) to determine if the people like the existing partiless system. In the meantime, the government is doing some politicking of its own: at a recent pro-partiless rally, a panchayat minister declared that "The supreme objective of the multi-party...
...arms control than any of his predecessors may end up presiding over the demise not just of SALT II but of SALT I as well; because of the shelving of SALT II, pressures are building within both the Pentagon and the Soviet Defense Ministry to scrap or at least suspend the 1972 SALT I agreement. Carter's most spectacular achievement, the Camp David accords between Egypt and Israel, will be in grave jeopardy if there is no progress on Palestinian autonomy by the end of May. With no such progress in sight, Carter's invitation to Menachem Begin...
ANYONE WILLING to suspend disbelief and ignore awkwardness for 90 minutes will find much of Marshall Brickman's new comedy about an extraterrestrial from the constellation Orion comical. Simon has many of the trappings of a Woody Allen movie, particularly reminiscent of Sleeper in its science-fiction silliness, and it's no wonder--Brickman collaborated on Sleeper, as well as Annie Hall and Manhattan. Both moviemakers tend toward the intellectual, so it comes as no surprise that Brickman's characters cite Wittgenstein. But Allen's products are by far the more polished of the two; Brickman often has wonderful ideas...