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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...adversary state, namely Lebanon, has been shattered, and the lack of inventiveness and imagination as well as magnanimity among Israelis in power in effect helped prepare the ground for the 1973 war. The stalemate within Israel now rests between the fanatical proponents of expansion and the very large number of Israelis who would be willing to trade land for an assured peace if they could secure a government capable of negotiating such a peace or even interested in it. Many American Zionists, with notable exceptions on the Harvard faculty and elsewhere, have been captives of party line of the Israeli...
Senior Sarah Mleczko, playing at the number three spot, eked out three close games to defeat her Dartmouth opponent 3-0. Having recovered from a ligament pull earlier in the season, Mleczko has steadily moved up the ladder from her original number eight position...
...team with many strong consistent players, the racquetwomen have continued to dominate teams boasting only one or two standouts. Explained are all very close. Number 7 could play number 3 on any given day. The line-up is constantly changing...
Taiwan, despite its tenuous political status and the growing number of countries which recognized mainland China and re-recognized Taiwan, continues bravely to maintain its independence and to develop economically at a pace close to that of Korea. Not far beyond economically were the small industrial city-states of Hong Kong and Singapore, which also witnessed remarkable attainment...
...into Afghanistan and Pakistan. Successful secessionist movements could tear away parts of some of those countries as well as of Iran, leaving a number of weak new countries ? the kind that usually tumble into social and economic chaos ? and dismembered older ones. All might be sub to penetration. Anarchy in Iran could also trigger a conflict with its uneasy neighbor, Iraq, which shelled border areas of Iran three weeks ago. The geopolitical stakes there would be so great that the superpowers would be sorely tempted to intervene...