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...goods and services and seemingly want to readjust the north-south economic imbalance overnight. They also need to face up to the problem of paying off the debt they already owe the West; the more than $400 billion borrowed by LDCs in the past decade, if defaulted, would threaten the very institutions that can provide the funds for further development...
Such dependence makes many Western observers uneasy. Only last fall, a Soviet trade official at the Hanover Fair in West Germany was heard to threaten to halt existing gas deliveries if the West Germans failed to be "cooperative" in opposing Western trade sanctions against the Soviet Union following its invasion of Afghanistan. The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung recently wrote in an editorial that it would be wiser for West Germany to build four additional nuclear reactors, which would provide an equivalent amount of energy at the same price as the Soviet gas deal...
Labor's right-wingers threaten to bolt the party...
...midst of drought and Depression. Those fellows were white knights to Humphrey, they were missionaries, they were the reason Humphrey put so much faith in Big Government. Yet even H.H.H. before his death sometimes despaired at the way insensitive bureaucrats had forgotten that they existed to serve, not to threaten...
...differences between the two incidents are more to the point. The U.S. could threaten force against North Korea because it had no fear of driving the North Koreans into the arms of the Soviet Union. With Iran that fear was, and is, a fundamental consideration, as was the even larger danger of igniting the entire Persian Gulf and throttling the West's essential oil supply. Also, the Pueblo crew was in fact spying, and they were doing so against a country with which the U.S. had no diplomatic relations. Beyond that, Kim II Sung's regime, while hardly...