Word: allayed
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...Reagan had hoped the final document would include another reaffirmation, that of the antiballistic-missile (ABM) treaty of 1972. Advocates of arms control within the Administration want to seize every opportunity to commit the U.S. to keeping SDI within the bounds of that treaty. Doing so, they hope, might allay Soviet concerns and induce concessions. Why was there no mention of the ABM treaty in the joint statement...
With the opposition in disarray, Marcos continued to maneuver. Among other things, the President last week announced that he had created a panel of military men to reorganize the armed forces. The move was regarded in part as an effort to allay U.S. restiveness over the reinstatement of General Fabian Ver, 65, a longtime Marcos crony, as military chief of staff. Ver is one of 26 men on trial for complicity in the 1983 Aquino assassination. Last week the Philippines Supreme Court temporarily forbade a special corruption tribunal to issue a verdict in the case. One military dissident dismissed Marcos...
...apparent effort to allay white fears, the government proposed a new public-safety amendment to widen the extensive powers of the police in controlling political unrest. The new measure will give Law-and-Order Minister Louis Le Grange the authority, currently reserved for the President, to declare a state of emergency in troubled areas. At the same time, Pretoria has promised to ease construction regulations and make more land available for black housing...
...denials did little to allay growing Western convictions that Damascus supports and facilitates terrorism, even if it does not actively conduct attacks, in its fight against Israel and Jerusalem's Western allies. In France, parliamentary support for the conservative government's stance on terrorism seemed to falter last week as suspicions hardened in some quarters that Syria may have abetted the bombers. A raucous debate erupted last Wednesday after Premier Jacques Chirac told the National Assembly, "There can be no discussion, direct or indirect, with terrorists." Opposition deputies sharply questioned the government's appeals to Syria for help in tracking...
Experts were quick to allay any public concern that such an accident might set off the missile warheads. A nuclear device, unlike older conventional explosives, cannot be detonated simply by a physical shock. The fission and then fusion reactions that must occur to explode an H-bomb can take place only if the weapon is armed electronically, which cannot happen accidentally. The warheads in the damaged tube "were obviously blown apart in the force of the explosion," says Vice Admiral Powell Carter Jr., director of the Joint Staff. Whether their remnants burned up or sank to the bottom...