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...Turn the page quick." Stockman does not score a clean sweep, however. The Budget Director proposes a steep reduction in subsidies for the maritime industry. Reagan demurs. He later explains: "No maritime nation can look to the future and envision a national emergency in which we could no longer depend on foreign bottoms to carry our cargo." Officially the question is still being studied. In fact, Stockman has lost this round...
...dramatic public appeal for a 90-day moratorium, Solidarity's national commission in Gdansk canceled a threatened printers' strike and ruled out all other work stoppages for the time being. But Union Leader Lech Walesa added that "our ultimate response to the call for a moratorium will depend on what happens during negotiations with the government." Those union-government talks currently under way concern a range of topics: the drafting of a new trade union law, the granting of radio and television time to Solidarity, and the continuing question of legalization for an independent farmers' union known...
...some other international forums are dominated by supposedly neutral nations that ritually criticize U.S. policies and reject U.S. sponsored initiatives. Pro-Western regimes in the Third World appear vulnerable to revolt and subversion. The U.S., and to a far greater extent its allies in Western Europe and Japan, depend for their very survival as economic powers on oil supplies from one of the most flammable regions on earth-the Arabian peninsula and the Persian Gulf...
...possible goal of U.S. policy in the ongoing peace talks would be a demilitarized West Bank, politically federated with Jordan (but with a large measure of local autonomy) and economically linked with Israel. Achieving that admittedly difficult goal would depend, of course, on getting Jordan's King Hussein to join the Egyptian-Israeli talks. Hussein so far has adamantly refused to do so. After the January summit of Islamic leaders in the Saudi Arabian city of Taif, the King once again insisted that the P.L.O. was the sole legitimate representative of the Palestinian people; nonetheless, he has never entirely...
...language and area-studies programs in high schools and colleges. However far removed this is sue may seem from the crisis of the mo ment in the Persian Gulf or Eastern Europe, the ability of the U.S. to deal with those regions ten or 20 years from now will depend hi part on the vigor of Arabic and Slavic studies around the country. A presidential commission correctly concluded hi 1979 that "American incompetence in foreign languages is nothing short of scandal ous and it is becoming worse." One so bering example: when a Soviet soldier hi Afghanistan briefly sought asylum...