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New York, Dec. 8—Thus far, unlike Walter Cronkite, Eric Sevareid, Barbara Walters, and Jimmy Carter, I have not participated in the recent events in the Middle East. However, I am a member of a Hawaiian organization called The Pearl Harbor Committee to Keep One’s Eyes on the Russian Fleet, and therefore, ex officio, I must get into the act.

All along, the Soviet role in the Mideast imbroglio has been ambiguous. When the initiative was taken by Mr. Kissinger to bring the contending parties to a Geneva conference, Moscow was brought in as co-sponsor. This was thought, to begin with, to be in the spirit of detente. But there was a certain geopolitical realism there also; nothing is truly stable in this world unless the Soviet Union agrees that it should be stable.

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William F. Buckley Jr.

William F. Buckley Jr. founded National Review magazine in 1955.

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New York, Dec. 8—Thus far, unlike Walter Cronkite, Eric Sevareid, Barbara Walters, and Jimmy Carter, I have not participated in the recent events in the Middle East. However, I am a member of a Hawaiian organization called The Pearl Harbor Committee to Keep One’s Eyes on the Russian Fleet, and therefore, ex officio, I must get into the act.

All along, the Soviet role in the Mideast imbroglio has been ambiguous. When the initiative was taken by Mr. Kissinger to bring the contending parties to a Geneva conference, Moscow was brought in as co-sponsor. This was thought, to begin with, to be in the spirit of detente. But there was a certain geopolitical realism there also; nothing is truly stable in this world unless the Soviet Union agrees that it should be stable.