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Perhaps the most important thing the strikers gained is a sense of resolute patience. "Back then, we thought we could go to Washington and watch the White House burn," recalls Judith E. Tucker '69, a former member of SDS and a graduate student in Middle Eastern Studies here now. "We didn't have a whole lot of political savvy. Now we know that change is going to come but it's going to come real slowly...
Nearly as significant is the way the treaty and the long negotiations have drawn the U.S. into Middle Eastern affairs. Says Johns Hopkins Political Scientist Robert W. Tucker: "It's not merely a peace that is backed by the Americans; it's a peace that almost has been created by the Americans. It can only stand up if the Carter Administration is prepared to act accordingly." Tucker favors a Marshall-Carter plan to give Egypt the necessary economic help to preserve its political stability...
Furthermore, says Tucker, "the logic of the treaty necessitates U.S. military involvement in the Middle East" as a stabilizing force. Among other measures, he favors the U.S.'s taking over the sprawling air base at Etzion, which the Israelis will be giving up as they evacuate the Sinai. He also suggests that Washington consider reinforcing the U.S. Mediterranean fleet and establishing a naval base at Haifa...
Ball, however, confesses that he is "pessimistic about whether we'll have the will to address this central [Palestinian] problem, particularly with an election year coming." Still, concludes Tucker, if the U.S. "follows through on the commitments implied in the treaty, then I am hopeful that it will work...
...against rigid analogies. If anything, says Laqueur, "you should compare Iran not with France, not with Russia, but with the revolutionary movements in Spain beginning in 1808 against Napoleon, where the revolt was carried out by the crowd, by the mass of people." Princeton University Political Scientist Robert C. Tucker suggests some similarity to the Russian uprising of 1905. Thousands of unarmed striking workers marched on the Czar's Winter Palace at St. Petersburg. Government soldiers fired on the crowd, killing and wounding hundreds. More strikes broke out. Peasant and military groups revolted. Says Tucker: "That may have been...