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...paper could have been far stronger. Syria's Foreign Minister, Abdel Halim Khaddam, argued that the delegates should propose Israel's expulsion from the U.N. and the adoption of sanctions against the Jewish state. But even the "rejectionist" Iraqis admitted that it was not practical to crack down hard on the Israelis. Thus they backed the moderate stance of Egypt, which was subtly supported by Saudi Arabia, whose Princeton-educated Foreign Minister, Prince Saud al Faisal, 35, chaired the meeting...
...challenger has won more than one race. But Australia is a virtual twin of Courageous-co-designed by Dutch-born Johan Valentijn who apprenticed under famed US 12-Meter Designer Olin Stephens, creator of Courageous. The low-slung challenger, which trounced rivals from France and Sweden to get a crack at Courageous, may well nearly match her in hull speed, and has a highly competent skipper in the respected Noel Robins...
There are scattered efforts to crack down on speculators, though speculation is a symptom rather than a cause of high demand. Some California savings and loans are either refusing to lend mortgage money to would-be buyers who do not intend to live in the houses, or charging them higher interest. A few builders, too, are declining to sell to the buyer who, say, tries to purchase five houses at once...
...mission confronting Secretary of State Cyrus Vance was to learn as he put it, "how to crack the hard nuts that have to be cracked So last week Vance flew in and it of the familiar way stations of Middle Eastern diplomacy-Alexandria Beirut, Damascus ... En route he heard a revised and promising version of a formula for indirect negotiations between Israel and the Arabs-but in almost no time at all the region's quarreling states proved that this solution would not be acceptable. Thus by week's end, with his eleven-day trip mostly over...
Unless Vance, in the time remaining on his tour begins to crack some of the Middle East's hard nuts. Jimmy Carter's optimism will be heavily discounted. Administration officials already have grim forebodings; the region's leaders warn that time is running short. Sadat has said that if this is not the year for peace, hate and war will again be in terrible, senseless ascendancy," while an Israeli Cabinet minister added: "If the situation freezes again, we will face another crisis...