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...regime in South Yemen. The U.S. also hopes to elicit a reaffirmation of continued Saudi financial aid for Egypt. In addition, the Administration is focusing on ways to enhance U.S. ties with Riyadh. Any tangible decline in U.S.-Saudi relations might force Egyptian President Anwar Sadat to adopt a tougher stance in peace treaty negotiations with Israel. "What's happened in Iran," admits a State Department official, "has forced us to examine a lot of unseen forces that bubbled below the surface in the Middle East...
...Harvard women's basketball team, which two years ago breezed by the dyslexic competition that Division Two offered, now finds life a little tougher and a lot more challenging in the big leagues...
...David H. Locke yesterday accused Senate Ways and Means Chairman Chester G. Atkins of cheating the senators of a chance to vote for a tougher bill. Atkins later responded that the Senate voted overwhelmingly for his approach, rather than Locke...
...scene, Khomeini faces far tougher tasks than rousing the people to fury against an unpopular autocrat. The Ayatullah has announced that he will set up a new revolutionary council for Iran. In so doing he risks a coup by an army whose generals, if not its soldiers, remain loyal to the Shah. He must pick up the numerous strands of opposition, united only in reverence for him and hatred of the monarch, and hold them together long enough to form a functioning government. It is a lot to expect from a spiritual leader wise in Koranic lore but woefully unskilled...
...several times: "They've been doing that to us for six years." Another State Department expert predicted that no matter how muted Teng might prove in his public statements, in private he would stress that the primary object of his trip was to persuade the U.S. to take a tougher stance toward the Soviet Union. That, said the expert, would take precedence even over Teng's search for help in modernizing China...