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In the end, the Saudis, along with their moderate allies from Kuwait and the oil sheikdoms along the Persian Gulf, succumbed to radical pressure. They were able to head off a retaliatory program directed at the U.S. But after the P.L.O., Syria and Libya stalked out of the meeting to...
The immediate prospect for the Middle East is more Palestinian terrorism, more internal conflict within the P.L.O. and more pressure on the Arab moderates, notably Jordan's King Hussein, who is currently siding with Syria and the P.L.O. against Egypt. The only real solution to the region's...
One of the most vocal blame layers at the Geneva meeting was Saudi Arabia's Oil Minister, Sheik Ahmed Zaki Yamani, whose country has long been regarded as OPEC's principal voice for pricing restraint. Indeed, the Saudis, along with the delegates from Ecuador, Gabon, the United Arab...
China's new rulers might put it more practically: no law, no Four Modernizations program to improve agriculture, industry, defense, and science and technology. "It is essential to strengthen the socialist legal system if we are to bring great order across the land," says Chairman Hua Kuo-feng. That...
All revolutions are unique, for roughly the same reasons that, as Tolstoy said, all unhappy families are unhappy in different ways. In The Anatomy of Revolution, the late Crane Brinton, the Harvard historian, attempted to formulate the stages of revolution. First, in Brinton's model, comes the euphoric phase...