Articles by Gulshan Dhanani

US-Israel Strategic Consensus Gulshan Dhanani THE US-Israel Strategic Consensus has finally been formalised and initiated during the Israeli Prime Minister, Yiltzak Shamir's visit to the United States at the end of November. In concrete terms, it means joint US-Israel m.litury panning and exercises, con- truction and stockpiling of US weapons and equipment for the Rapid Deployment Force on Israeli territory, conversion of much of the US loans to Israel into outright grants, permission to spend a good part of the US military assistance on the development of Israeli Lavi fighter-planes, setting up of a free trade area in Israel, resumption of supplies of the deadly cluster-bombs, etc. The agreement provides for a joint US-Israel Military panel which will look into each of these issues. The panel wih hold its first meeting in January, Soon after the agreement was signed, President Reagan told the press that it "will give priority attention to the threat posed to our mutual interests by increased Soviet involvement

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young workers. Insufficient technical education and lack of upbringing with due emphasis on socialist consciousness are reported to be other factors contributing to this unhappy situation and measures are being taken to remedy the situation. Perhaps another important issue here is one of adaptation of the younger generation from a traditional, rural life-style to a rvgi- mented and disciplined industrial life pattern. A further dimension to the specific condition of Tadjekistan is the prevalence of a relatively well developed agricultural sector in a planned socialist economy which provides easy employment even at the cost of lowering of labour productivity and raising cost of production.


But, in January, the Mexican peso was devalued, radically cutting the dollar value of all wages on the Mexican side. So, for the moment, the supermarkets stand empty, and the bankers weep. * * * The Americans want to open a new crossing point for truck traffic. They've changed the first place selected, because environmentalists protested it would affect the breeding habitat of a species of migrant bird. The INS don't seem to have checked whether the birds were legal or not.

gist for the Soviet Union, nor does he Palestinian Perspectives on Arab-Israeli Conflict Conflict undermine the importance of the US- Soviet global rivalry. In fact, he begins his analysis with the same Gulshan THE Institute for Palestine Studies, Beirut, is an independent research institute, devoted to promoting a better understanding of the Palestine problem and the Arab-Israeli conflict It brings out the Journal of Palestine Studies in collaboration with the University of Kuwait and publishes books by its own research-staff and other scholars in the field on various aspects of the Arab-Israeli problem. Besides, it publishes (in English, French and Arabic) occasional Papers, called the IPS Papers, which are analytical essays dealing with selected current aspects of the Palestine problem. The present review article proposes to sur vey four IPs Papers.