Word: explained
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...smiling Foreign Minister Nguyen Buy Trinh has been visiting in Laos, Malaysia, Indonesia and the Philippines. In the ASEAN capitals, Trinh called for "a new period for the development of relations, friendship, good neighborliness and long-term cooperation." Hanoi's game plan appeared to be twofold: to explain and justify its invasion of Cambodia and, in long-range terms, to loosen its bond to Moscow. The Vietnamese appreciate Soviet assistance, but they do not want a bear hug. Thus in the ASEAN capitals they were laying groundwork for negotiations on economic cooperation and establishing or expanding trade relations...
...Import Bank, which is providing much of the financing for the project, to ask the Justice Department to determine whether Westinghouse made improper payments to a foreign business agent. Troubled by an embarrassing international scandal, President Marcos last week told TIME Correspondent Richard Bernstein: "Westinghouse has some things to explain to our government. If there has been anything illegal committed by Westinghouse, our lawyers are considering canceling the contract with Westinghouse and giving it to somebody else...
...controversial bill slipped through the Knesset two days after Christmas, when attention was focused on Middle East diplomacy. And diplomacy may in part explain its passage. Because of pressure from liberal Jews in the U.S., Premier Menachem Begin promised the two Orthodox parties in his parliamentary coalition a long-sought bill on a different issue, which refused to recognize conversions to Judaism in Israel except under Orthodox auspices. By permitting the antimissionary bill, he may have hoped to shore up Orthodox support during a time when compromise may be necessary in the delicate negotiations about the future of Israeli-occupied...
...years of heavy losses that at one point drove it to the brink of bankruptcy, could not stand any more competition. Carter gave the route instead to Braniff, which has been prospering mightily; the President cited "foreign policy considerations" that, as is his privilege, he did not bother to explain...
...space and time linking our universe and a mirror-image universe composed of antimatter. When antimatter from that other world comes in contact with the "normal" matter of our own, the two totally annihilate each other. That kind of reaction, involving a complete conversion of mass into energy, could explain the prodigious energy output of the quasars...