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...move in, we can solve the problems. Even St. Peter could not do that, but if we have a credible election in the Philippines, it will restore people's faith in some kind of institution. Today the people have no respect for anything. If you let this drift continue, then five years from now the left will be a factor in the Philippines. We can't win as long as Marcos is counting the votes, but we can force him to spend billions of pesos...
Some states are reluctant to use the herbicide as an aerial spray because of the chance that it will drift, contaminating nearby crops and livestock. Federal officials claim that the isolation of national forest lands, plus the | containment factor provided by a helicopter's downdraft, minimizes that risk. Others disagree. Says Jay Feldman, head of the National Coalition Against the Misuse of Pesticides: "There is no aerial application that doesn't involve drift...
...momentum of Soviet-American relations between 1969 and 1972 was toward a summit and a treaty. That is not the case now. Despite the change in climate and a certain amount of course correction on both sides in recent months, Soviet-American relations are still in a state of drift, and below the surface, they are not drifting toward a summit. On the contrary, over the INF issue alone, they could be drifting toward a crisis. The two tracks of the 1979 NATO decision may end up leading to a spectacular collision, in which arms control crashes into deployment. That...
...funds to the U.S. has created a dilemma for other nations. They must jack up their own interest rates to compete with U.S. levels if they hope to keep the money from departing. But the higher rates will then dampen their economies. "Germany has already let its interest rates drift up since spring," notes Hans Mast, chief economist for Credit Suisse in Zurich. "If American rates don't drop by fall, European rates will have to start moving up." Says Economist Heller: "The international costs and consequences of our interest rates are really incalculable...
...from $17 million in 1981. Says Heckler: "Every breakthrough we achieve is a step toward the reuniting of families and friends, the lifting of the veil of confusion and isolation from Americans who deserve days and years of celebration in their final years, not days and years of drift...