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Thatcher shares a fear widespread among Tories that in pursuing SALT Carter has lost sight of the global Soviet threat. An early test for the Anglo-American alliance may come over Zimbabwe-Rhodesia. Many Tories favor recognition of the new biracial government headed by Bishop Abel Muzorewa. It is unlikely, though, that the Thatcher government would move to recognize the new Zimbabwe-Rhodesian regime prior to the August meeting of the Commonwealth Conference in Zambia...
What stymied the talks this time were again relatively minor issues. Both sides, for example, had previously agreed that the number of MlRVs (multiple warheads) on each type of intercontinental ballistic missile would be frozen at the quantity already tested. That meant a maximum of ten for the Soviet monster SS-18. But last December the U.S. detected the Soviets testing an SS-18 in a way that suggested that the missile might soon have the capacity to carry twelve warheads. Since the MIRV freeze is an important selling point in the upcoming battle for SALT II ratification, the Carter...
...group of barons sat King John down to sign the Magna Carta. So there was considerable irony in the fact that an international court, born out of the Holocaust to prevent the rise of another Nazi Germany, solemnly declared last week that Great Britain had failed a basic test of human rights. Free expression, ruled the 20-judge European Court of Human Rights, had been denied by a longstanding English law that stifled the press and allowed a national scandal to go virtually unreported for a decade...
...governments will pull the rug out from under it," says Cedric Thornberry, an international lawyer who has brought more than 100 cases to Strasbourg. Indeed, the human rights commission refuses to hear most cases and tries to settle the rest amicably. Only when that fails, or a really significant test like the Sunday Times case comes along, does the full court pass judgment on one of its member nations...
Carter's tax approach will help ensure that many kinds of companies, small as well as large, and industries besides oil will get a chance to test daring ideas. Oil companies should not be encouraged to try to dominate, or monopolize, whole new alternative-energy industries that come into being to compete with petroleum. In such esoteric fields as the direct conversion of sunlight into electricity and the extraction of gas from sea water and oil from coal, companies in other industries?electronics, mining, shipbuilding?have as much expertise as the oil industry and, in some cases, more...