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...cost of operating buildings is one of the Faculty's thorniest problems, for several reasons. Besides the normal rises in costs that inflation has brought, worldwide oil shortages have made building heating especially expensive in the last two years...
...that will depend on who speaks for the West Bank's Palestinians, Jordan's King Hussein or the P.L.O., which claims to be the Palestinians' only legitimate representative. The issue was probably the summit's thorniest and most acrimonious problem. During the preparatory foreign ministers' meetings that preceded the summit, feeling ran so high at one point that Farouk Kaddoumy, head of the P.L.O.'s political department, heaved his well-filled dinner plate at Jordanian Premier and Foreign Minister Zaid Rifai. At week's end the foreign ministers voted...
...exultantly, Richard Nixon and Leonid Brezhnev concluded their first summit meeting two years ago by signing a treaty that was to be a first step toward limiting the development and deployment of strategic arms. The second step has been much more difficult. SALT (Strategic Arms Limitation Talks) is the thorniest topic Nixon and Brezhnev confront. Their ability to agree on it will determine whether the U.S. and Russia will discontinue the costly and potentially dangerous search for nuclear advantage...
This adds up to one of the thorniest problems that the EEC now faces: chronic payments deficits among all EEC nations, including even those like France whose exports are increasing, but excluding West Germany, which is running consistent surpluses even while its Deutsche Mark rises in value. Compromise will be necessary on both sides...
Peace will boost the chances that the thorniest Middle Eastern question--the grievances of the displaced Palestinian people--can start to be resolved. The Palestinians are a people with no country. Only in a peaceful Middle East, with an Israel confident of the long-term stability of its situation, can the Palestinians hope for the fundamental concessions which Israel must offer if an even partially Arab Palestine is to become a reality...