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...Arabs by granting them economic and military aid and selling them weapons. While both candidates declare they would not tolerate any future oil embargo imposed by Arabs, Carter specifically warns that such an action would be regarded by him as an "economic declaration of war" warranting a virtual halt of all U.S. trade with the boycotters...
...interest in the problems of working women when it runs articles extolling the virtues of volunteerism--It can benefit You. Although the author's explanation of this viewpoint is offensive, after reading a few pages of Equal Times it is hardly unexpected: "Our society would probably grind to a halt if women demanded minimum wage for everything they now volunteer for. Maybe you don't think that would be such a horrible occurrence. But while you and I argue the matter, people who have been elected to public office are making decisions that have a profound effect on our lives...
...rockets, sent in swarms of low-flying MIG fighters, then followed with tanks. Said one fedayeen who fled from a burning house: "They use their rockets like we use our guns. We fire 30 bullets and they fire 30 rockets." Palestinian radio broadcasts appealed to Arab nations to "halt the liquidation of the Palestinian revolution," but the Syrian offensive ground...
...border between Kenya and the Sudan, soldiers with submachine guns halt all traffic, including nomadic herdsmen who usually cross at will with their goats and sheep. In neighboring Zaire, alarmed officials seal off part of their northern frontier. At airports in Africa and Europe, passengers suddenly find themselves subjected to unusual scrutiny and occasional detention. These grim security measures are aimed not at halting some new eruption of guerrilla terror but at containing a possibly greater menace: a killer fever that has been spreading ominously in equatorial Africa, causing as many as 300 fatalities, including the deaths of four Belgian...
...experience triggers a melancholy reverie about a future when the American machine has rusted to a halt. The nation resembles some medieval terra incognita. Bandit barons rule its regions. Manhattan is an ancient ruin reclaimed by vegetation. The Chinese have become the world's most advanced civilization. They have even learned to shrink themselves to the size of egg rolls to conserve natural resources...