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Another argument is that a sizable American cutback would provide the right amount of pressure to force Europe to put up more for its own defense. The U.S. feels that it is the only country that is really expected to fulfill its obligations under NATO and that even the dedicated Germans tend to find excuses for not fielding more troops, citing the country's severe industrial manpower shortage. But whether a U.S. reduction would have the desired effect is doubtful. Charles de Gaulle, for one, has deprived NATO of some French troops on a considerably smaller pretense, and Britain...
Watson said that the Masters are not in favor of any cutback in parietal hours, but he insisted that the Masters "are just not cued into what's going on in student rooms...
...from such sources as the Export-Import Bank and the Peace Corps, Moscoso hopes to stretch out his budget for a while. But Alliance economists are busy figuring out scaled-down programs, even though there is a possibility that the Senate might reverse the House action. A $150 million cutback could mean abandoning plans next year to build 10,000 classrooms and low-cost housing for some 175,000 people; it would cancel low-interest loans to 10,000 farmers for plows, seed and fertilizer to escape subsistence-level farming, wipe out a plan for loans to 6,000 small...
...cutback in U.S. bases overseas. An even older Moscow propaganda cliche. The U.S. has shut down missile bases in Italy and Turkey when the arrival of Polaris submarines made the launching sites obsolete; other bases will close only if they become superfluous...
Dinners & Soup. British beefeaters have always been the biggest customers for Argentine canned, chilled and fro zen beef; in 1959 British purchases accounted for two-thirds of Argentina's exports. But since then, overproduction of beef by British farmers has forced a sharp cutback of nearly 20% in British buying. Fortunately for the Argentines, other European customers and newly opened markets behind the Iron Curtain and in Egypt, Israel and Portugal are taking up the slack...