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...demonstrations in the West Bank and Gaza raised the specter of another war. In neighboring Arab countries, governments speculated that the Israelis, if not preparing for outright annexation, were intentionally trying to drive out the Palestinian Arabs, who constitute more than 96% of the population of the West Bank and Gaza. Three Arab states-Jordan, Lebanon and Syria-called one-hour national strikes as gestures of sympathy for the Palestinians. At the United Nations, the Security Council began debate on a motion to condemn Israel for its actions on the West Bank...
...noted that border talks between the Soviet Union and China are nothing new and that the volume of trade between the two countries ($400 million annually, vs. $5.5 billion with the U.S.) remains small. Says an Administration Kremlinologist: "This is not the first time we've seen the specter of a rapprochement. But every time we put it under the microscope, the threat vanishes...
...issued a vague warning of major new Soviet deployments directly threatening the continental U.S. To Western ears, it sounded as though Brezhnev was hinting that the U.S.S.R. might put Soviet missiles back on Cuba. That would violate the Kennedy-Khrushchev agreement that ended the 1962 crisis, and raise the specter of a new, potentially even more serious confrontation in the next couple...
...specter of double-digit inflation is fading fast. Indeed, the Consumer Price Index., which was bounding up at a 14% annual rate as recently as last September, rose at a mere 3.7% pace in January. Economists now freely predict that the February figure, to be announced this week, will show an equal or even more modest increase. A few are timidly speculating that it might actually drop for the first time in 16 years...
...sudden specter of violent death-the first of a foreign journalist in El Salvador since early last year when Photographer Olivier Rebbot was shot-heightened the pressures of covering a war that is in some measure a staged media event. Both Secretary of State Alexander Haig and El Salvador's Marxist-dominated rebels say that the government of President José Napoleón Duarte cannot last without U.S. military aid. Thus both sides are fighting partly to influence American opinion. When New York Times Executive Editor A.M. Rosenthal returned this month from a tour to "get the feeling...