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...universities would gain little from a ban on intelligence gathering under cover of overseas research. It would neither cause foreign countries to release secrets to American professors which they had not revealed before nor grant them any wider freedom of travel or access. Needless to say, strange research projects sustained by the CIA--such as MK ULTRA--discredit the agency and faculty concerned as do attempts by academics to spy on radical groups on campus. Congress must insist these activities cease immediately...
...reasons for Libyan support are not clear, though it may be that Gaddafi wanted to support a fellow Muslim in order to preserve an Islamic "belt" running from Libya through Chad (where Libyan-supported guerrillas now control the government), Uganda and Somalia. Gaddafi's involvement, however, carries wider implications for Africa. Libyan planes in support of Amin used Nairobi International Airport, thus placing Kenya on Amin's side and in opposition to Tanzania. Ugandan exiles in Nairobi and elsewhere have vowed vengeance on Kenya...
OPEC'S price rises do heavy damage. Third World countries that do not process oil will suffer grievously from slower growth, higher inflation and wider trade deficits. Similar penalties will be inflicted on Western Europe and Japan. The U.S., because it is the biggest customer for OPEC crude, will suffer the brunt of the latest increase. The effects will be felt just as signs of the long awaited economic slowdown are appearing...
...Viet Nam said that it would "severely punish" continued "barbarous acts of war" by the withdrawing Chinese. Indeed, there was the possibility that the righting could start up again in earnest at any time, but as both sides grudgingly announced a conditional willingness to negotiate, the menace of a wider, Sino-Soviet conflict appeared remote. Dropping its warnings of retaliation against China, the Soviet Union smugly noted that Peking appeared to have "sobered up," and congratulated itself on the restraint that had foiled China's "perfidious design" of "instigating a clash between our country and the United States...
THIS EXODUS is part of a much wider American flight from the country, one that reflects, after 45 years of unwavering support for the corrupt Somoza family dynasty, the ambivalence which now characterizes Washington's attitude towards the aging general and his oppressive policies...