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...lives and must begin penniless. According to a report by the General Accounting Office, the newcomers are generally less educated and less likely to speak English. The GAO found that "some refugees, particularly some Hmong Laotians, cannot read or write in their own languages and are virtually unexposed to Western culture." They must be taught, it continued, to do such elementary things as diaper their babies and not burn firewood on top of their stoves...
...seem to think they are close to giving a knockout blow to the Palestine Liberation Organization. But if anything, P.L.O. morale is higher than before. Their strength has not even been touched." Since the latest wave of Israeli attacks coincided with the current diplomatic offensive of the P.L.O., some Western observers have concluded that Israel's real motive in Lebanon is a devious one: to make it impossible for P.L.O. Chief Yasser Arafat to pursue a moderate course, in opposition to more radical colleagues, and thereby to destroy any chance of a rapprochement between the U.S. and the P.L.O...
...result of the Israeli raids on Lebanon is that they are driving Western Europe even further toward the Arab camp. West Germany and France, in particular, are hoping to secure from the Arab oil states some kind of agreement guaranteeing oil supplies and are impatient with Israeli intransigence. Before leaving for the Middle East last week, West German Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher emphasized his government's support of Palestinian self-determination and its disapproval of the Israeli tactics in Lebanon. Privately the West Germans are furious that the Carter Administration has backtracked on its recent hints that there...
...outstripping its neighbors in a far less enviable category: the nation of achievers has become the Continent's biggest market for illegal heroin. So far this year, West German police have seized 116 kilograms of heroin, a higher figure than was reported by all the other countries in Western Europe combined. At least 430 people died of drug overdose in West Germany last year, more than an eightfold increase since 1970. This year promises to batter all previous records: 335 drug-related deaths have been reported through July. On a per capita basis, police calculate, the Federal Republic...
Until West Germany gained ascendancy as Western Europe's main heroin market, that dubious distinction belonged to Amsterdam, which had dominated the trade following the breakup of the infamous "French Connection" in 1972. But unlike the highly organized drug networks that have operated in France, The Netherlands and the U.S., the West German drug trade is mainly in the hands of individual entrepreneurs selling the stuff on their own. This makes it all the more difficult to stem the tide. Arrest statistics indicate that a very high proportion of the smugglers are Turkish immigrants, who constitute about...