Word: counterweight
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...Adenauer at Rambouillet, De Gaulle pressed on the Germans his dreams of a new European political structure-perhaps a permanent series of European summit meetings or a permanent consultative secretariat for political coordination. Still intent on establishing French leadership of the Continent, De Gaulle was trying to create a counterweight to the U.S. within the Western alliance. Adenauer regards the U.S. alliance as basic to Bonn's for eign policy and thinks De Gaulle's dream dangerous. Accordingly, falling back on the technique with which wives have brought straying husbands to heel since the dawn of time...
Koinange has spent his years of exile in Britain and in Ghana, where he is now an all-Africa adviser to Ghana's ambitious leader, Kwame Nkrumah. His principal purpose at the conference last week seemed to be to act as a counterweight to Kenya's young, aggressive Labor Leader Tom Mboya, 29, and to represent his absent chiefs-Kenyatta and Nkrumah-who view Mboya as an upstart rival...
...hands of electoral colleges largely composed of municipal councilors. Result is that the new Senate to be elected next month is likely to bear considerable resemblance in its party groupings to the Chamber of Deputies of the Fourth Republic. As such, the Senate will be a counterweight to the U.N.R.-dominated Assembly-a development not likely to discomfit De Gaulle, who has never wanted to see France ruled by a single, all-powerful "Gaullist" party...
...street organization Kassem has, and, playing the game they played so long with Sukarno in Indonesia, they show themselves more loyal than anyone else to the nation's boss, increasing his dependence on them. Moscow obviously wants (as does the U.S. and Britain) an independent Iraq as a counterweight to Nasser...
...machinery and most of the member unions, Peronism will have its old mass organization intact. But Frondizi has shown no intention of letting Perón himself return to Argentina. In his delicate, dangerous balancing act, the left-of-center President has allowed Peronism to rebuild itself as a counterweight to the conservative army and business elements. Now he must endure the kind of greedy heckling at which Peronistas excel...