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...drift in Common Market policies was criticized last week in a speech by French Foreign Minister Claude Cheysson, who warned that the European Community "has fallen far short of its original objectives" and faces difficulties that could destroy it. Cheysson said the Community lacks "cohesion and solidarity" and has had too little impact on international events...
...Soup, which manufactures Godiva chocolates, was not amused. In a letter to Grey, the company charged that she was "passing off inauthentic and offensive merchandise" that looked like candy for humans and "may constitute a danger to public health." Campbell demanded that she supply a list of her customers, "destroy all the packaging" and "pay over to us the profits." Grey, who says that Campbell is "barking up the wrong tree," sued the company in a Los Angeles federal court for interfering with her enterprise. Campbell countersued, and Grey filed an additional complaint with a California state judge. The courts...
...history of all mankind of what Boorstin calls "mankind's need to know." Such a history leaps the barricades of class and race and nation to show the awakening of our collective intelligence. It affirms the powers of discovery to build in the face of man's powers to destroy. Instead of the crossbow or the cannon. Boorstin tells of the printing press, the telescope, and the microscope...
...particular, Reagan's $1.6 trillion military buildup has shocked the Soviets. To Americans, that reaction might seem sheer hypocrisy. Nothing did more to destroy détente than the Kremlin's insistence throughout the 1970s on piling up weapons far in excess of any legitimate Soviet defensive needs. During the decade the U.S.S.R. put in place thousands of nuclear missiles and expanded its oceangoing war fleet while
Syria's hand is more visible in the continuing campaign to destroy Arafat. Though Assad and the P.L.O. chieftain have worked together in the past, the strains were always there. As early as 1969, when Assad was Defense Minister, he tried to regulate the activities of P.L.O. guerrillas in Syria. As President, he supported Arafat's avowed enemy Abu Nidal, a rogue P.L.O. leader who ran the Black June terrorist group. After the Lebanese civil war, Assad supported Beirut's right to impose rules on the P.L.O. even though the group was far stronger than the government. While Assad...