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...were reports that a total of 50,000 Iranians was expected in Syria. Iran's U.N. Ambassador Said Rajaie-Khorasani last week charged that "the U.S. encouraged Israel's bloody adventure in order to save [Iraqi President] Saddam Hussein, strengthen the hand of the reactionary regimes in the region, weaken progressive forces and indulge Israel's expansionist designs." He also charged Egypt and Saudi Arabia with being "pillars of U.S. expansionism...
...cruise missiles that will be able to penetrate our antiaircraft defenses? And at the same time, the U.S. is demanding that we reduce the principal weapons on our side, land-based missiles. We favor significant-I repeat significant-reductions. But we will never accept any proposal meant to weaken our security while it strengthens American security...
...accounts, flagrantly violated John Paul's teachings on human rights, a frequent topic that he saw no need to emphasize in democratic Britain. In his expected private meeting with junta leaders, and in all public actions, he must be careful not to offend Argentina, or weaken his new bonds with Britain, or ignore the diplomatic sensitivities of neighboring Chile. That country, which is also heavily Catholic, has its own border dispute with Argentina over ownership of the Beagle Channel islands, an area that is, if possible, even more remote than the Falklands. According to church sources, a settlement proposed...
...Iran's oil-producing Khuzistan province. He had hoped to become the region's strongman, but he has suffered an ironic reversal. Iran has regained nearly all of Khuzistan, and Iranian guns along the Shatt al Arab are shelling Iraq. Saddam Hussein, who had wanted to weaken Khomeini's Islamic regime, is now in serious danger himself...
...times Tocqueville was so eerily prescient that he seemed to have had a private view of the future. His comment about critics of the Federal Government-"It was by promising to weaken it that one won the right to control it"-might have been written about the 1980 election. Reeves' observations have a cogency of their own. Discussing what he perceives as the modern tendency to appeal to government to solve all ills, including governmental ones, he writes that "government, trusted and feared, obeyed and avoided, revered and disdained, had become very much like a religion. Its role...