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Impressive Gains. The continuing power struggle does not necessarily mean China is hovering on the brink of major civil strife. The governing bureaucracy functions effectively. The military appears to be stable and-so far, at least-has shown no signs of rebelling against party authority. Impressive gains have been made in industry and agriculture. One crucial but little-noted factor making for stability is that top-level quarrels in Peking sometimes do not have very much effect in the vast impassive interior of the country. The debate over revisionism in education, for example, has for months captured the headlines...
...hazard of the sectarian strife in Lebanon is that it could accidentally trigger a broader Middle East war. Damascus already has an estimated 2,000 to 3,000 troops in Lebanon-many of them disguised as commandos of the Palestinian Saiqa movement based in Syria-who were dispatched to enforce peace. Syrian President Hafez Assad may have to send still more troops to force the Moslem side into full peace. Assad, however, is reluctant to do so for fear that Israel might respond by occupying southern Lebanon, where many Palestinian strongholds are located...
...remained neutral during the last three Arab-Israeli wars.) Israel may have to worry much more about its 49-mile-long border with Lebanon. The establishment of Moslem rule in Lebanon may be a notable triumph for the Palestinians. The fedayeen initially tried to stay out of the political strife, later tried to police it, and finally were forced to join what seems to be the winning side. They can be expected to demand a few rewards from their leftist friends, even though they already constitute a state-within-a-state inside Lebanon...
...white flight" thesis was immediately attacked and generated numerous requests for the data on which his conclusions were based. He did not release the new study for months, but he did give many interviews and also filed an affidavit in federal court bolstering an antibusing appeal in strife-torn Boston...
...emigre from the Business School, Kilbridge took over the acting deanship of the faltering and strife-ridden GSD in 1969, dropping into the controversy surrounding the GSD's decision not to rehire a popular but outspoken then assistant professor of City Planning, Chester W. Hartman...