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...conservative Saudi leadership, already wary of unrest among the country's Shi'ite minority, fears the trouble Khoeyniha will bring in his wake from Iran, where the Shi'ites are dominant. Already the Iranian embassy in Saudi Arabia has secretly been printing and stockpiling millions of propaganda tracts. Their message: "reactionary" regimes like Saudi Arabia are hand-in-glove with the enemies of Islam, and Muslims everywhere must unite and overthrow their "lackey governments." As a security measure, the Saudis are banning Iranian pilgrims from visiting Shi'ites in the east on their way to Mecca...
...Libya is supposedly still negotiating a merger. "The reactionary Arab regimes that have had a hand in arranging the expulsion of the Palestinian resistance will themselves face the revenge of the Palestinians," Gaddafi said. "If the Palestinian fighters are dispersed to several Arab countries, the regimes there will suffer unrest. There will be destabilization in those countries. Moreover, the Palestinians will find a way to return [to Lebanon and to fight against Israel] across a number of fronts. Then perhaps the world will see that the only solution is to give the Palestinians their own homeland, to establish a Palestinian...
President Bok took over from Nathan M. Pusey The worst of the student protests but at a point when it was clear that the President needed more assistance than Pusey had when he tailed to respond effectively to campus unrest Bok turned Massachusetts Hall, traditional headquarters for the University, into a highly bureaucratized network of vice presidents and personal advisors. His system has, by and large, succeeded in moving the University back into smooth waters with Admiral Bok relying heavily on his individual captains to maintain the prosperity and academic success Harvard enjoys...
...much is speculation. The less dynamic--and more likely--prospect is for a prolonged political deadlock punctuated by outbursts of popular unrest and made-to-order "movements" centered on the "new ideas" of youthful-looking congressmen and senators. In a decade of Thurowian "zero-sum" economics, American democracy seems capable of fostering only division, not consensus--and certainly not a consensus behind the kind of progressive environmental and economic reforms that the country needs most. Basic changes in the political system--moves toward parliamentarism--are even more unlikely. We will be lucky indeed if America manages to avoid the kind...
Such an attitude is common in an industry that is increasingly plagued by unrest. Bound by strict labor contracts, black miners are forced to live in spartan conditions, separated from their families for up to two years at a time. Racial tension at the mines has been aggravated by the vast disparity between pay rates for the nation's estimated 117,000 white mineworkers and their 700,000 black counterparts (the 1980 average: 1,077 rands a month for whites vs. 169 a month for blacks). Black workers, whose base pay raises are set by the South African Chamber...