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Despite Northeastern's attempts to avert the inevitable, however, that margin was measured in feet of open water...
...worst week in the Oval Office. His deft touch at manipulating political symbols faltered; the continuing storm over his planned visit to the German cemetery at Bitburg on Sunday put the President in a painful predicament with no graceful way out. His vaunted powers of persuasion could not avert a stinging defeat in the House, which killed all proposals for U.S. aid to the Nicaraguan contras for now. The Soviets turned more than normally truculent, and the U.S. economy developed some worrisome rumbles. Reagan's eternally sunny optimism for once clouded over. "He is in anguish over Bitburg...
Sovern knows that Columbia loses the propaganda war if it uses force against the self-styled civil disobedients. Indeed, Columbia can only claim a total victory if the students disperse of their own accord. At all costs, Sovern must avert a dramatic final confrontation that would the demonstrators a moral victor...
...unions, the guerrilla units. One reason the U.S. sent troops to Viet Nam is that it lacked other alternatives to help its allies prevail against this sort of subversion. In fact, developing a capacity to engage in such political action and shadowy paramilitary activities might help the U.S. to avert future Viet Nams...
...research. Later he stipulated that participation was desirable, but only if other allies joined as well. In a further departure, a recent government policy paper describes the project as "a long-term research effort" and emphasizes that West Germany favors an outcome in the Geneva disarmament talks that would "avert an arms race in space." Said a West German spokesman, explaining his government's announcement last week that it would not respond immediately to the Weinberger offer: "The Americans can't think that we are so crazy as to make a decision now about a research concept...