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...classic preservation-vs.-progress scrap. The issue: should the interests of a small group, righteous as its cause may be, prevail over other interests that may affect the well-being of far more people, even that of the whole country? The resource is molybdenum (moly, as friend and foe both call it), a strategic metal used not only to strengthen steel but to make fertilizer, rubber, lubricants, plastics and paints. Just three miles from Crested Butte's Main Street, deep inside 12,414-ft. Mount Emmons, lies buried what may be one of the richest molybdenum deposits...
...afford the enormous expense of keeping warplanes in the air at all times as a deterrent to aggressors. Thus the country feels a particular vulnerability to nuclear blackmail. The Begin view: no Israeli government, or any other government in a similar position, could ever take the risk that a foe armed with atomic bombs would not use them...
...speech lasting 25 minutes, interrupted 15 times by applause, Reagan declared that the country had grown out of its "Viet Nam syndrome" and vowed to continue his battle to beef up the nation's defenses. "The era of self-doubt is over," he proclaimed. "Let friend and foe alike be made aware of the spirit that is sweeping across our land, because it means we will meet our responsibility to the free world...
...course not, but there are revolutionary committees that practice revolutionary violence, and anyone who opposes the will of the people will have to be chased. Anyone who is opposed to the will of the people becomes a foe of the people...
...four main political parties. In separate meetings, he received Socialist Lionel Jospin, Communist Boss Georges Marchais, Paris Mayor and Neo-Gaullist Leader Jacques Chirac and Jean Lecanuet, head of Giscard's demoralized Union for French Democracy (U.D.F.). Mitterrand's gesture of consulting with friend and foe alike reinforced the new administration's tone of national unity...