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...across the Red Sea, in Egypt, in the Sudan, in Iran. " Speaking in Manhattan last week to the International Radio and Television Society, Kissinger suggested that four basic principles should be kept in mind−perhaps by the Carter Administration−as the Russians, with their Cuban consorts, now threaten to intervene in southern Africa as well...
While the new free agent system does not threaten the very existence of organized baseball, "we have to run up some warning flags," baseball commissioner Bowie Kuhn said Friday night at the Law School Forum...
Another responsibility of conservatism is "to protect old liberal ideas from new liberals," Will said. Affirmative action programs threaten the old liberal belief in the color-blindness of the law by allocating rights on the basis of membership in a minority group, he added...
...Pledged to hold the federal deficit for fiscal 1979 to the $61 billion he has budgeted ("as large as we can afford") and to veto any bills that threaten a deeper bath in red ink. He warned that bills now being seriously considered by congressional committees might push the deficit $9 billion to $13 billion above target...
...resulting tensions come out looking like a religious conflict. In fact, the conflict is ideological, not religious. The political status quo in Africa, like that in any other part of the world, requires religious legitimation. If the churches threaten to withhold it, one or both of two things happen. Either the more out-spoken church leaders are removed (sometimes by assassination, as in the case of Archbishop Luwum of Uganda) or the political system actively encourages the coming to prominence of a traditional religious cult, such as in Kenya in 1969, Chad in 1974, Equitorial Guinea in 1976, and Madagascar...