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Many thoughtful Africans believe that, given time, some sort of home-grown democratic system will take root, although few are able to describe what form it will take. In Africa, as everywhere, economic growth requires a stable political environment...
...commission stopped short of advocating military sweeps in Lebanon to root out terrorists, since that would require a vastly increased U.S. force. But it warned that "combating terrorism requires an active policy... It makes little sense to learn that a state or its surrogate is conducting a terrorist campaign or planning a terrorist attack and not confront that government with political or military consequences." The commission recommended that anti-terrorist planning be sharply accelerated by the Defense Department and that the Pentagon and the CIA jointly explore ways of improving intelligence gathering on terrorist activities. Weinberger initiated such a study...
Enormous ideological and moral differences are at the root of the difficulties in relations with the Soviet Union. Nothing will make these differences disappear in the foreseeable future. However, we should aim to develop three types of relations: exchanges and contacts that benefit both sides, arms negotiations, and a high-level dialogue that will enable the participants to explain their intentions and so avoid misunderstandings...
...four legs and a foot and can't walk. It has a head and can't talk. What is it? 2) What lives in winter, dies in summer, and grows with its root upward? These are only a small sampling of Monika Beisner's Book of Riddles (Farrar, Straus & Gir-oux;$11.95). The mystification is alleviated by Beisner's teasing illustrations, which scatter clues for those who know how to observe. The answers, incidentally, are: 1) a bed, 2) an icicle. And those are the easy ones...
...more aid to El Salvador and a surrogate war in Nicaragua; a Democratic House tries to cut the aid and end the war; both sides prepare to blame the other for a halfway policy that failed. A commission (Kissinger's) is now convened to solve what is at root a domestic political problem...