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...North Korean's offer of reunification "would weaken the argument used by South Korean leaders to strengthen their already too-heavy military," Wagner added, thereby giving encouragement to the country's populist movement in the proposed upcoming popular elections next year and creating a chance for more inner turmoil...
...trade embargo would still have a symbolic importance, underscoring Iran's diplomatic isolation from the rest of the world. But punitive measures might endanger the hostages: according to some officials in the Iranian government, they would weaken the position of moderates on the Revolutionary Council...
...Federal Reserve now controls about 70% of all bank deposits, but its leverage could weaken greatly if many more banks withdraw from the system. Senate Banking Committee Chairman William Proxmire and his House counterpart, Henry Reuss, have proposed dealing with the situation by enacting mandatory reserve requirements for all financial intermediaries (including thrift institutions) that accept checking accounts, thus nullifying the edge that non-Fed members now enjoy. That could permit reserve requirements to be reduced for everyone. But Congress must act soon. At present, nearly 600 banks are thought to be considering fleeing the Fed. If they do, scores...
...brand-new broadside by Dr. Charles T. McGee, a clinical ecologist of Alamo, Calif., who is quoted above. His 220-page polemic issues a general alarm about multifarious dangers that lurk in every nook and cranny of contemporary civilization. Even fluorescent lighting, he says, may, in some weird way, weaken the muscles. The book, billed as a "crash course in protecting your health from hidden hazards of modern living," is entitled How to Survive Modern Technology. Anybody with a frail heart might not even survive the book...
Muslims have aggressively sought the material wonders of the West, yet are ambivalent in their souls. Berque locates the central dilemma of Islam: If Islam is ever to become an economic and political competitor of capitalism and Marxism, it must embrace a progress that may forever weaken its ethical and spiritual structures, just as other religions have been drained by the secularization of the Western world. So far, Islam has not proved itself a vehicle of social change, a program to confront the modern world...