The Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon present a special obstacle to a peace settlement in Geneva; Most of the 95,000 refugees in 15 camps in Lebanon come originally from the northern Galilee or from the areas around Jaffa or Acre on the Mediterranean coast. They
“I’m from Gaza. What’s the West Bank to me?” — Beirut lawyer “There is something worse than having a West Bank state and that is having nothing.” — PLO official Preface Confronted for the first time in twenty-five years with the real possibility of a
London, England September 24, 1973 In April 1969, long before the NATO allies had reason to be concerned about President Nixon’s later unilateral negotiations with Russia, Henry Kissinger told a White House visitor that the President believed a “profound transformation” of Soviet-American relations could be
London, England September 21, 1973 The Russians who have been struggling most valiantly to liberalize the Soviet system feel that they have become the chief victims of the Soviet-American rapprochement. A visiting American finds them bitter and depressed. They ask why Washington has permitted this
London, England September 19, 1973 West “We’ve achieved strategic parity. But we haven’t achieved economic parity.” This comment by a leading Soviet professor during my visit to Moscow indicates the skepticism among Russian intellectuals about the regime’s management of the ailing Soviet economy. To
