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...faction is led by Premier Golda Meir and Defense Minister Moshe Dayan. They want to maintain the status quo-in effect to keep all or most of the occupied territories. Last month, at a meeting of Labor Party leaders, Dayan demanded what one critic called "practical annexation." Dayan would like to create an economic union between those Arab areas and Israel, with a free flow of labor and capital. Arabs would be allowed autonomy on purely local matters...
This status quo prescription-the report calls it "global equilibrium"-is as chilling as the doomsday prophecy. Halting economic growth is not merely a matter of the already affluent giving up such frills as electric toothbrushes or power windows. Sacrifices would be made by the poor, who have not yet collected the benefits of the industrial revolution. Economic growth does not necessarily guarantee that the unemployed Mississippi Delta black or the Vietnamese peasant will some day enjoy a balanced diet or a private room. But stopping growth could all too easily foreclose even the possibility...
...Albania, the Congo and the Sudan. Seldom since the Cuban missile crisis, however, have the Russians been handed such a stunning diplomatic slap over so important a suzerainty. Since the 1967 Arab-Israeli war, there have been few events in the Middle East that so upset the sullen status quo and opened the way for either resumption of a brutal war or renewed peace negotiations...
...world's environmental problems on increases in population. A woman biologist from Nigeria, aided by four burly colleagues, startled the audience by seizing Ehrlich's microphone and declaring that birth control was merely a way for the industrial powers to remain rich by preserving the status quo. Peace was restored only after Ehrlich conceded that the U.S. should curb its own consumption of natural resources before urging population controls on developing countries. Brazilian Economist Josué de Castro fumes at the very mention of birth control. "Genocide of the unborn!" he charges...
...opinion, correct. But let's face it: Harvard did not risk a crisis which cost thousands in police overtime, printing bills, hotel rooms for freshmen disturbed by the building occupation, etc., just to protect itself against enforced self-indulgence. Harvard's ongoing stake in the corporate status-quo-the network of personal relationships and common assumptions that allies the University too often with Wall Street and State Street is demonstrated by its failure even to vote in favor of the Gulf disclosure resolution. That Gulf would prefer to "tell all" rather than have Harvard's .3 per cent voted against...