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...Quid Pro Quo. At week's end nothing was certain. Though Arab leaders agreed that a meeting of oil ministers should be held to discuss lifting the embargo, they seemed in conflict on whether it should be in Cairo on Sunday or Tripoli on Wednesday. It is unlikely, though, that Libyan Leader Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, a blunt critic of the U.S., would permit a meeting in Tripoli that was likely to lead to an elimination of the oil cutoff. Algeria, Kuwait and Syria were also opposed to ending the boycott. Some of the other Arab states would probably agree...
...Secretary of State Henry Kissinger has made it diplomatically clear that the U.S. expects an end to the embargo as a quid pro quo for his peacemaking efforts in the Middle East, and the most influential Arab leaders have been responsive. Egyptian President Anwar Sadat has been pressing the oil-producing states to resume shipments to the U.S. King Faisal of Saudi Arabia agrees; his oil minister, Ahmed Zaki Yamani, stated flatly last week that the embargo had served its purpose and should be scrapped...
...very nature, Conservatism is no policy at all. It is an attempt to preserve the status quo with as little tampering as possible, and its concern is largely short-term in anything it undertakes. If equality is to be achieved with consensus in government, Britian needs a government with a policy, and a government which is willing to supervise the transition from capitalist mayhem to a more controlled and equitable society. I do not believe that capitalism will collapse tomorrow, but too many individuals in Britain and elsewhere are being knocked over and trampled upon every time the sick beast...
...prison system, as it stands now, is a social failure. It benefits more than anyone else the people who run it--not the victims of crime, not the taxpayer, and certainly not the prisoner. Those people who fight to keep the prisons at a status quo are thinking of nothing but their own self interest. As Attica leader Roger Champen said in a speech at Harvard in December, "Prison is an industry, and industry must have its slaves...
...nothing else, this week's reenactment of the Boston Tea Party taught its participants a history lesson. The lesson was this: When people are dissatisfied with the status quo, they will demonstrate that dissatisfaction. And at this point in American history, the people are very unhappy with Richard Nixon...