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...previously landed safely in Malaysia, only to be towed out to sea again by the Malaysian navy. As for the refugees already in camps, their plight has not improved much, despite the promises of the Geneva participants to provide $190 million in additional aid. In fact, bureaucratic delays threaten to thwart many of the good intentions announced in Geneva...
...After the introversion of the mid-and later '70s, Schlesinger believes, we may now be on the brink of an explosively creative time. Says Schlesinger: "Two things happen in periods of inactivity and negativism. The national batteries get recharged, and the problems we neglect pile up until they threaten to become unmanageable...
...Thursday the committee heard its first testimony from the other side of the SALT debate. Edward Rowny, a recently retired lieutenant general who was the Joint Chiefs' representative on the SALT II delegation for six years, denounced the accord for establishing "conditions which threaten our security for years to come." During the talks, said Rowny, "we gave concession after concession." Paul Nitze, who helped negotiate the SALT 1 accord, warned that the new treaty's provisions "one-sidedly favor the Soviet Union" and that the arguments for them were full of "fallacies and implausibilities...
Last winter the ACTWU organized a campaign that led labor unions to threaten to withdraw more than $1 billion in pension and other funds from New York's Manufacturers Hanover bank unless it dumped two of its directors, who also held seats on the Stevens board. The bank quickly caved in and failed to renominate Stevens Chairman James D. Finley and David W. Mitchell, chairman of Avon Products. Two weeks later Mitchell, deluged with letters from union sympathizers threatening a boycott of Avon goods, also quit as a Stevens director...
...Aleppo massacre, and the swift retribution against the Muslim Brotherhood that followed, were chilling reminders of the deep political and religious tensions that continue to plague Syria and now seem to threaten President Hafez Assad himself. By skillful manipulation of Syria's diverse religious, tribal and regional elements, he has given his country almost ten years of internal stability...