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There are other, more enduring questions. After five major wars in less than 40 years, how do 3.4 million Jews live in the midst of more than 150 million Arabs, many of whom remain sworn to Israel's destruction? Can a nation expand its borders in the pursuit of greater security? Will such expansion gain security? How long can a state that rules 1.4 million disfranchised Arabs remain what it set out to be: a Jewish homeland as well as a democracy. Is it this state's destiny to be an isolated island in the Middle East...
...party's new leader, Turner, who holds no seat in the present Parliament, is expected to be sworn in as Prime Minister shortly. He will lead the Liberals into the next elections, which must be held some time before next spring, against the opposition Progressive Conservatives, led by a political newcomer, Businessman Brian Mulroney, 45. Whichever party wins in what is expected to be a close contest, Canada's next government will undoubtedly be considerably to the right of Trudeau...
...their pocketbooks, and the latest upswing in the economic cycle has coincided with Reagan's re-election campaign. Unemployment (7.4%) is down from double digits to roughly where it was when Reagan took office, and inflation (5.6%) has not been so low in a decade. When Reagan was sworn in, it was 13.5%. More important, most voters feel that times are good-and getting better...
When the two Iranian F-4 fighter planes flew over Saudi Arabian territorial waters last week, they seemed to set the stage for yet another attack on a tanker doing business with Iran's sworn enemy, Iraq. But this time the story was different: the planes were intercepted by two Saudi F-15 fighters firing air-to-air missiles. One, and possibly both, of the Iranian planes was shot down. A short time later, Iran sent eleven more F-4s into the skies over the Persian Gulf. Again, the Saudis intercepted them. After a brief standoff, the Iranian planes...
...Napoleón Duarte, it was a moment to savor. Robbed of what looked like certain victory in 1972, then beaten by Salvadoran soldiers and exiled to Venezuela for seven years, Duarte realized a long-cherished dream when he was sworn in as his country's first freely elected President in half a century. For El Salvador, the day proffered the sweet promise that after nearly five years of civil war and a dozen years of political turbulence, the country might begin to heal. For the Reagan Administration, the inauguration symbolized its most successful accomplishment in the region, what...