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...face of another Soviet invasion, this one chillingly near by. Brezhnev and his Kremlin comrades would love to seduce the Europeans from Washington's orbit, and to maintain Communist rule in Poland merely by the posturings of force. But no one doubts that if necessary they will resort to its use, just as they did in Afghanistan last December and in Czechoslovakia twelve years...
...ministers of the 13-nation Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries gathered under unusual circumstances last week amid lush tropical greenery on the resort island of Bahi, Indonesia. For the first time in the group's history, two of its members were at war, and the battlefield confrontation threatened to spread into the conference room, thus weakening the cartel's fearsome control over oil prices. But after a two-day meeting, the OPEC nations agreed unanimously not to let the war between Iran and Iraq get in the way of boosting the price...
Even though the Soviets are faced with all these compelling factors, intelligence experts believe that invasion represents an absolute last resort. A Western ambassador in Moscow asks rhetorically: "What would the tanks do after they got to Warsaw? They can't make the workers work." Indeed, it is more likely that Poland would become a giant welfare case leeching billions from the Soviet Union every year...
...Rosenblatt, assistant professor of English and a member of the Committee of Fifteen, was hesitant about discussing his past association with that disciplinary body: "Ah, yes, I guess. What does CRR stand for again?" At the time, Rosenblatt says he remembers thinking that the University should not have to resort to such a quasi-legal, formalized process...
Even if Hawaii can clamp down on crime, the islands will remain helplessly vulnerable to the soaring cost of jet fuel, which is the main cause of the rising air fares. Local officials fear that Hawaii may become a resort only for the very wealthy. Says Paul DeDomenico, president of Hawaiian Holiday Macadamia Nut Co.: "Some people say that tourism in Hawaii depends on the rich. That's wrong. It depends on the middle class...