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Foreign Policy. The President is set to contend that his military buildup has strengthened the U.S. to the point that it can, with safety, search more actively for accommodations with the Soviet Union. Reagan tried out this new line in a speech last week, softening his rhetoric notably to appeal for a "working relationship" with Moscow. But while campaigning as a peacemaker, Reagan will probably insist that he needs every penny of the 17% increase in military spending that he will request for fiscal...
...accident would keep the pipeline from completion in June. Said Vasili Dinkov. Soviet Minister of the Gas Industry: "All the contentions by Western propaganda that the pipeline supposedly will not be ready by the scheduled date are nothing but an attempt to engage in wishful thinking." But Western experts contend that the fire at the Urengoi station, the largest of 41 planned compressor units, will delay the project perhaps six months. "We believe that the pipeline has been completed in the sense that all the pipe is welded together," said a Washington official. "But to blow gas through the pipeline...
Berg and other environmentalists contend that farm animals are in much greater danger from wild dogs and coyotes. Blaming the wolf for every kill, she argues, is almost "a psychological need." Says she, with just a touch of hyperbole: "The wolf is an intelligent animal that groups together and does just what a hunter does when he gets together with his pals." Bowing to antiwolf passions, Interior authorities last summer announced a limited wolf-trapping season in which up to 160 animals a year could be taken in farming areas...
Some experts contend that the proliferation of authoritarian governments in Africa represents a stage in the political development of what are still very young nations. "We have to recognize that the constitutions we bequeathed to our former African colonies don't work in some places," says a British official. "It is not a mortal sin for these countries to adapt them to their own particular circumstances...
Protestors contend that the June 7 Commencement date will force them to break Jewish law. They also complain that the University has been insensitive in its discussions with them...