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Your story on Britain's summer of discontent fails to mention a key triggering element. Britain's frustrated lower classes have had a bellyful of exposure to overweening privilege, particularly during this time of a spectacle wedding...
...secret of his success, says former U.S. Diplomat Averell Harriman, is his special gift of understanding "the other man's point of view," thereby gaining the precious element of trust. No talent is more vital in the Middle East, and Philip Charles Habib, 61, has so far used it impressively during his eleven-week mission. Says one Israeli admirer: "If he hears the word no, he pretends he hasn't heard...
...fashioned out of plutonium, which is a byproduct of the modern alchemy that occurs in reactors. Even relatively small reactors can produce several pounds a month of a type of plutonium that lends itself to bombmaking. Equally important, plutonium, unlike the nearly identical isotopes of uranium, is a separate element with its own distinctive characteristics. Thus it is relatively easy to pick out by ordinary chemical means from other radioactive material...
After Reagan and López Portillo talk over their differences, the Administration will likely unveil another element of its new policy toward the region: a long-term program of both economic and military aid. The Administration plans to use trade concessions and private investment incentives to fight the region's poverty, which it believes only helps breed Communist subversion. The Reaganauts also make no secret of their intention to send arms into the area. As Thomas O. Enders, the Assistant Secretary of State-designate for Inter-American Affairs, said last week, "We will help threatened countries to defend...
...river. The sovereignty question is particularly volatile: there are hopes of finding oil under nearby waters. While Zia had pressed India strenuously on the diplomatic front-even sending gunboats to one of the 'disputed islands last month-he was apparently not aggressive enough for a fiercely anti-Indian element with a strong base in Chittagong. The assassins were apparently linked to these militants...