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...rate, the South Vietnamese relied heavily on assurances from almost every level of U.S. diplomats and military officers that after the G.I.s departed, aid would definitely not diminish...
...decides to hang on, it is because he hopes his forces can defend Phnom-Penh for three more months, until the wet season impedes the insurgents' drive. With an improved military situation, the President would expect political pressures to diminish. On the other hand, if he finally makes up his mind to leave, it may in no small measure be due to Cambodia's students. Last week, as rumors swept the capital that time had run out for the President and that a coup was imminent, leaders of the Association of Students of the Khmer Republic, which claims...
Jordan said the special committees created by Congress to investigate the Central Intelligence Agency are not an effort to "diminish or destroy" the agency...
...problem but insisted that courts could deal with it by keeping careful limits on the IRS power. After all. Burger added, many taxpayers innocently "hide large amounts of currency in odd places out of a fear of banks"-a fear that last week's decision will not diminish...
...gaining vogue. Several revisionist studies suggest that the OPEC surpluses may not be all that troublesome. The most sanguine of these, a "scenario" published last month by Manhattan's Morgan Guaranty Trust Co., estimates that OPEC's total surplus could peak at $248 billion in 1978, and diminish to $179 billion by the decade's end. The World Bank sharply revised its earlier prediction for 1980 down to $250 billion, expressed in 1974 dollars (that figure does not include inflation, while the Morgan figures...