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Each year New Jersey beaches are swept by a "red tide" of tiny organisms that redden the sea, give swimmers rashes and threaten the shore area's ecology and economy. Health officials trace this phenomenon to the "dead sea" outside New York Harbor, a region devoid of marine life where barges routinely dump the city's garbage and sludge (treated sewage). To worsen matters. New Jersey itself dumps sludge offshore, and so does Pennsylvania...
...because the Soviets had relaxed their positions. Does this mean that the Kremlin is genuinely seeking better relations with the West? Certainly the Russians have enough reasons to do so. With the recent slight thaw in Sino-American relations, Moscow is worried anew that a Washington-Peking rapprochement may threaten its interests; force reductions in Europe would allow the Soviets to move more troops to the Chinese border. Another factor, which Brezhnev stressed to visiting Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau two weeks ago, is the economic drain of maintaining massive forces in Eastern Europe. Perhaps the most compelling reason...
Isolationism carried into the 20th century is essentially a flight from reality. To label the critics and reappraisers of U.S. foreign policy neo-isolationists is equally escapist. Few things threaten U.S. power more seriously than excessive or misguided intervention; the Viet Nam War has done more than any other factor in recent years to reduce U.S. global influence. Seeking to rationalize U.S. commitments abroad is the very opposite of isolationism, because only such rationalization can restore and maintain the U.S. position in the world...
Environmental Recession. Round 3 in the fight could well make ecology an issue in international trade. The U.S. obviously has an interest in a clean environment in other countries simply because air and water pollution do not recognize international boundaries, and thus threaten progress made at home. Beyond that, businessmen legitimately complain that their products, already at a disadvantage on the international market because of high domestic costs, will become even more expensive as a result of the new pollution controls. The U.S. could start to exert pressure on other industrial nations to set stricter standards for their own automakers...
...community" would join to "safeguard the interests of countries whose economies depend to a large degree on primary products, particularly sugar." Rippon felt that the wording was sufficiently strong. After all, if there were any inclination to welsh on that promise once Britain was inside the Market, London could threaten to make things difficult for the one-crop French African countries that are protected by special trading arrangements...