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...conflict as a game of superpower chicken, opposing Soviet aggression with U.S. resistance in a steady escalation towards open warfare. Carter's underlying assumption is that the U.S. goal is to confront the Soviet Union directly; in fact that goal should be to block Soviet expansionism. Carter should not resort to self-serving bravado that is as empty as it is dangerous. Instead Carter should seek to place the U.S. at the head of the broad-based international movement now condemning the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan by supplying arms in areas directly threatened by Soviet aggression and most importantly...
...summit was the fifth that the two have held since the signing of the peace treaty last March. Sadat and Begin, who were accompanied to Egypt's best-known winter resort by their wives, resumed the warm, almost joshing relationship of previous meetings. When Begin gallantly made a dinner toast to Sadat's wife Jehan ("To our dear lady, or perhaps I should say our beautiful lady") his Egyptian host, amid roars of laughter, responded with mock jealousy: "Begin, be careful...
...Roger Fry, the English art critic, when he organized a sensationally vilified show of Manet, Van Gogh, Gauguin, Seurat, Cézanne and others at the Grafton Galleries in 1910. By then the painters that Fry's exhibition encircled were all dead, and his name for them was a last resort: he toyed with calling them "expressionists," luckily decided not to, and at last exclaimed, "Oh, let's just call them postimpressionists; at any rate, they came after the impressionists!" And so the word was born. It described nothing, but it indicated that after 1880, the annus mirabilis that...
...February so we can finalize booking the band." Urfirer said yesterday. He has consulted such companies as Pepsi Cola, Coca Cola, Cott Beverages, Canada Dry, Tech Hi-Fi, McDonalds's and E.F. Hutton. Urfirer said he hopes to find a single backer for the concert, but may resort to multiple underwriters to divide the expenses...
...blocking the spread of war. The partial grain embargo will only inconvenience the Soviet society. And in the short run, Soviet stockpiles of grain will further cushion the blow. The technology blockade will have even less effect. The United States is the Soviet Union's supplier of last resort for all high technology and currently does less than one quarter of the trade that Japan, the Soviet Union's leading western trade partner, does annually...