Editorials

...Special Session on Development which broke up unable to agree on the terms of the debate...

...aid and public vs...

...The outgoing U.S...

...GAPS & LINKS When the rich man speaks all are silent, and they extol to the clouds what he has to say...

...For the future, then, much depends on the undefined "spirit" that Reagan, Margaret Thatcher, and Helmut Schmidt may have caught at Cancun, the possibility that in closed rooms at least, they were able to hear, and be heard by, leaders of the third world...

...The "no-free-lunch" principle cuts both ways...

...to participate in such negotiations-which at the very least involve the third world's claim for structural reform in the international economic order-may represent real movement on his part, Cancun has done no more, and no less, than bring us back to the deadlock of last year's U.N...

...Reagan has had uppermost in mind...

...president, the conferees, doubtless swallowing hard, apparently maintained their cool, their tact, and-though it was difficult to tell from an American press that largely blanked out what others said and fluttered around Reagan like moths about a flame-their candor...

...The air cleared, we're told...

...Acutely aware of this history, Mr...

...In effect, the Philadelphia speech told the poor to follow the newly Gilderized gospel of American free enterprise...

...Reagan, Thatcher, and Schmidt don't like the populist, demagogic atmosphere of the U.N...

...Nor does this nation's basic commitment to Israel's continued health and survival mean that we should endorse everything that Menachem Begin does...

...And obviously, if they're to provide raw materials and commodities to the north, the third world wants a stabilized "fair price" in the exchange...

...told Tanzania's Julius K. Nyerere, Bangladesh's Abdus Sattar, or Guyana's Forbes Burnham, to go out and hire themselves a New World rich in natural resources, vast space, and hordes of exploitable skilled immigrants...

...On top of this, his willingness to use air strikes here, there, and everywhere outside his borders, using United States planes in the process, endangers not only Israel's long-range security interests but those of this country...

...so does the Indian.so does the Indian...

...Up until this point, the Reagan administration's attitude toward the third and fourth worlds, reaffirmed by the president's October 13 speech in Philadelphia, has largely replayed the parable of Dives and Lazarus-with a twist...

...Trudeau said of Cancun, "This was not a solid step forward...

...It was reported that this topic, much discussed in the U.S., was not even mentioned at the recent Reagan-Begin summit...

...At the close of Menachem Begin's visit to this country, it was announced that the U.S...

...General Assembly for ticklish and region-specific developmental debate...

...Little wonder, then, that these gentlemen were unmoved to relocate...

...The answer, revealed by the lacunae in cowboy Reagan's Philadelphia version of the American success story, is that this country has never seen the point of the America Indian potlatch festivals...

...The gap is the widening one between rich and poor that poses-with or without Russian or Cuban help-the most serious threat to international security...

...There is also room for a host of trade-offs on the issues of trade vs...

...by rules which they can now ignore, as it were, on the high seas...

...will participate is one place to start...

...Though Reagan's willingness to commit the U.S...

...In this area the rifts in the Western alliance are as promising as they are disconcerting...

...The Israeli-Egyptian autonomy talks in which the U.S...

...The cowboy has his virtues...

...In the long run and possibly even in the short run, the future of Israel is dependent on some sort of accommodation with the Palestinians and its Arab neighbors...

...Memories of the Holocaust should not be allowed to keep America silent about policies that are misguided at best and potentially fatal at worst...

...but they're likely to want multinationals bound by as-yet-unformulated U.N...

...Begin's frozen posture on this and other similar questions makes progress toward a peaceful settlement impossible...

...Neither a date nor the terms of the new talks were set, and the consensus on making the U.N...

...The greater wonder is that after having received such a sloganeering, ideological advance notice from the U.S...

...On the U.S...

...question of the Israeli use of American arms to destroy Iraq's nuclear reactor...

...Reagan went to Cancun waving the entrepreneurial flag on these questions, enthralled with the achievement of Taiwan and Hong Kong but utterly oblivious, for instance, of what the free-enterprise "miracle'' has done to disenfranchise and impoverish millions of peasants in Brazil or the Philippines...

...When the poor man speaks they say, "Who is this fellow...

...and Israel were planning to embark on a course of''strategic collaboration" even closer than the relationship that already existed between the two countries...

...That Reagan and other Northern leaders came to the Cancun table at all is not to be minimized...

...At the same time, as a series of commissions have documented-the Brandt Commission, "Global 2000," and the President's Commission on World Hunger-between an expanding southern market for industrial goods and services and huge trade deficits ($439 billion by 1980), the fate of third-world development is linked irretrievably with our own-at once a capitalist's dream and a banker's nightmare...

...to make both of these points, forcibly...

...They've got a point...

...Sirach (13:23) So far as U.S...

...Between them, high oil prices and interest rates threaten to push back the middle-income developing nations (e.g., Brazil, Mexico, South Korea, et al...

...The sharp differences in viewpoint clearly remain, but it may be something that Reagan did not feel "trapped," as his White House aides had warned and that he had to face not only third-world leaders who spoke sense, but the greater willingness on the part of his Western allies to accommodate at least some of the claims of the south to priority attention and a restructuring of international economic agencies...

...And what exactly did the United States get in return for its side of the bargain, with all the damage it is bound to do to our relations with the Arab countries...

...should insist that a beginning must be made...

...If that was the case, the effort failed...

...On the other hand, to move these issues into the arena of the World Bank, I.M.F., or GATT without a greater voting voice for the third world in these forums would be unjust...

...Trudeau and Austria's Chancellor Bruno Kreisky as a symbolic inauguration to "raise consciousness" and improve "the political atmosphere" regarding development issues...

...Especially so if the industrialized north wants new, potentially rich markets in the south...

...People like Zhano Zlyang of China or Simeon Ake of Ivory Coast seem well enough aware of what they must do for themselves- especially when it comes to food self-sufficiency-and not oblivious of the wonders of the Western system...

...It's a moment for trade-offs...

...To be sure, the lack of terms or timetables for negotiating the real differences at leaves things in a state of suspended animation...

...Take the sensitive-to the U.S...

...private...

...What the third world has been trying to get the industrialized West to hear since the proposal in 1974 of a New International Economic Order is not simply a beggarly moral appeal, as William Safire and other demeaning stereotypers would have Americans believe, but a claim built on the hard facts of interlocking economic and political self-interest...

...Ditto for the increasingly obvious policy of annexation Mr...

...Ditto about the use of U.S...

...The fact is that in such matters Israel is not following a course that is in our national interest...

...foreign policy is concerned, the Cancun summit promised to pour some salubrious sunlight on the Reagan-Haig obsession to impose a Cold-War frame upon third-world development issues...

...The post-World- War-II boom that made Americans rich was in great measure fueled by the trade that came our way from the Marshall Plan "giveaway...

...These points represent serious differences between the United States and Israel, and it is folly to continue to ignore them lest we upset Israel's sense of security...

...There is room for reciprocal accommodation here...

...to where they were before the impressive gains of the fifties and sixties-and for the fourth-world nations (Bangladesh, sub-Saharan Africa, Guyana, etal...

...And out of that thin air, the summit co-hosts, Canadian Premier Pierre Elliott Trudeau and Mexican President Jose Lopez Portillo, conjured agreement to pursue development negotiations at the U.N...

...From the outset, the event had been hatched by Mr...

...This will not be easily done, and pressure will have to be put on them too, but the U.S...

...The argument, of course, is about gaps and linkages-but not the essentially military or East-West ones Mr...

...Precious little, except to bolster the administration's paper consensus in the area against Soviet encroachment...

...It is time for the U.S...

...side, the move was apparently an effort to get Israel to ease its opposition to the sale of AW ACS to Saudi Arabia...

...Clearly the policy has not worked and is not working...

...BITING THE MIDEAST BULLET THE ASSASSINATION of President Anwar el-Sadat of Egypt underscored the uncertainties of U. S. policy in the Middle East-uncertainties that will not be cured by escalating the arms race in the region...

...Why, asked the late Barbara Ward, can't we see in that precedent a formula for the third world...

...Begin is pursuing on the West Bank where the overwhelming majority of the population is made up of Palestinian Arabs...

...Indeed, from a long-range point of view the course is not even in Israel's national interest...

...Ambassador to Syria recently characterized Prime Minister Begin as blind and said that no peace settlement in the Middle East could be reached while he remained in office...

...It is time for the United States to put that assertion to the test...

...As in the days of Henry Kissinger, the Reagan administration seems committed to the idea that ever more and more must be done to foster Israel's sense of security in order to make that country eventually more ready to make needed compromises with the Palestinians and its Arab neighbors...

...And finally, of course, there's the argument that without enormously increased concessional aid on the fronts of energy and refinancing loans, the poorest of the poor nations will simply go under-and take our banks with them...

...But in the meantime the administration strategy seems to be to avoid any discussion of real or possible conflicts of national interest between the United States and Israel...

...one state-one vote) their site was hedged with the U.S...

...demurrer: as forums, the administration prefers the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, and the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), where the big contributing industrial world holds hegemony and veto power...

...planes in the killing of hundreds of Lebanese civilians in Beirut...

...rules-as corporations are bound in the U.S...

...the seventies have been crushing...