Word: mideast
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...offsetting this problem for many Third World countries is to raise the prices of oil or raw material exports, so that the inflationary effects rebound to the industrial powers. One doesn't need an economic expert to point out the production of large steel hulks to sit on Mideast runways adds less to the Gross National Product than consumer goods that create a "ripple effect" of employment and income in the service and management fields...
...price increases, and indirectly, by reducing the nation's dependence on expensive foreign oil. Instead of leaving conservation to the vagaries of the so-called free market, rationing could immediately reduce oil imports, opening up alternatives in foreign policy to a blind commitment to keep the ever-more-expensive Mideast oil spigot open...
...carved his own high line through the curves. "Six months ago, I couldn't have bought a vote for Carter if I'd given out green stamps," Farmington Democratic committee chairman Paul Blouin announces. Now, he's the leader. People aren't happy about the war building in the Mideast, but they're not angry either. "He had no choice," one man says, whether the question deals with Iran of draft registration. Carter has one other thing going for him in this small town--he "had the courtesy," as one woman puts it, to send his son Chip to Farmington...
...Showing our toughness is not an alternative. The worst possible outcome would be for the president, prodded by the Reaganites and the Russian and Iranian challenges to his manhood, to invade, blockade or bomb Iran. The hostages would die, anti-American sentiments all over the Mideast and South Asia would explode into violence, perhaps toppling a few shaky regimes and turning Third World condemnation of the Russians (for Afghanistan) and Iran (for hostage-taking) into condemnation of America. And a coordinated Western trade embargo towards Iran and Russia is not really possible. Europe and Japan need the oil, the market...
Americans, particularly black leaders, should view the treatment of Palestinians in the Mideast as only one part of the global human rights question, Alan M. Dershowitz, professor of Law, told a Riesman Center audience Friday...