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...Saudis, Arab solidarity is essential if the Soviets are to be prevented from exploiting Arab quarrels. Communism, the Saudis believe, is almost as much a threat to the Arab world as Zionism. They feel an overall peace settlement would "deradicalize" the Arabs, whose frustrations about Israel have fostered a brand of terrorism that has frightened the Riyadh rulers. The assassination of King Faisal in 1975 (although apparently not politically motivated), the kidnaping later that year of Saudi Oil Minister Ahmed Zaki Yahmani at the OPEC meeting in Vienna (a scheme masterminded by Palestinian Leader Wadie Haddad) and last spring...
...that case, renewed momentum toward a peaceful settlement would again depend upon Britain and the U.S., whose blueprint for Rhodesia was eclipsed when Smith accepted universal suffrage. A main feature of their plan calls for a London-appointed administrator to govern for a six-month transition period during which a constitutional conference-based on one man, one vote-would create the political structure of an independent Rhodesia. U.S. Secretary of State Cyrus Vance and British Foreign Secretary David Owen are to meet this week at a NATO conference in Brussels, where they will certainly review their strategy for Rhodesia...
...tide of color threatens to engulf Britian." So warns the National Front, a neofascist party whose main goal is to expel the estimated 2 million "coloreds" - Jamaicans, Indians, Pakistanis and other nonwhite former colonials - who have migrated to Britain since 1945. The ten-year-old front mixes crude, inflammatory racism with a dose of ultranationalism (calling for increased defense spending and high protective tariffs, for example). Official membership is only about 20,000, but the front has attracted a following among working-class whites and is the country's fastest-growing political movement. Although it has yet to elect...
...have been announced for future publication. The return to grace of these forbidden works is part of the continuing campaign against the Gang of Four, headed by Mao Tse-tung's widow Chiang Ch'ing. At a Peking literary forum two weeks ago, 20 authors-including some whose works have been newly rehabilitated-attacked the Gang for "wantonly disrupting the creation of literary works...
...Gierek, whose country is predominantly Roman Catholic, last week requested and was granted an audience with Pope Paul VI in the Vatican...