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Some challenged the Treasury Department's figures concerning the size of OPEC investments. David Mizrahi, publisher of the New York-based economic and political journal Mideast Report, maintained, without documenting his claim, that the Treasury Department has detected less than one-third of the holdings of the OPEC nations in the U.S. Many moneymen believe that large OPEC funds are funneled into the U.S. through third parties and foreign syndicates. Mizrahi's tally for just three OPEC investors: $100 billion from Saudi Arabia, $55 billion from Kuwait and $45 billion from the United Arab Emirates...
...Except for his anti-Soviet reflexes, this President has no foreign policy," said Paul Tsongas of Massachusetts. Stormed Alan Cranston of California: "Reagan doesn't have a policy on nuclear nonproliferation. He doesn't have a policy on arms limitations. He's clearly groping for a Mideast policy. He has no human rights policy, and may never have one now. His policy on El Salvador-first he blew it up, then he blew it down. His policy on arms sales is to spew them everywhere. This Administration desperately needs a sense of direction...
...broadcast, which opened with an account of President Reagan's second press conference, touched on events in the Mideast, Atlanta, Poland, Afghanistan and Pakistan before concluding with the 64-year old broadcaster's 40-second au revoir to his audience...
...chance to be the first woman to race in an Egyptian regatta may not have made up for the disappointment of missing the 1980 Olympics because of the U.S. boycott, but Carrie Graves, Harvard women's crew coach, and her partner Peggy McCarthy called their trip to the Mideast last week the strangest experience of their rowing careers...
After Nov. 1980 election, the Pentagon sets up a strike force, Congress reimposes conscription, a presidential war ensues, Mideast oil is cut off, Europe-Japan-USA go into convulsions, PPCC (President-Pentagon-Court-Congress) disappear. Henry Ratliff...