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Though U.S. diplomats favor resisting So viet pressure on the Middle East, they see little benefit in committing U.S. armed forces to the area. They warn that such a move might goad Moscow to respond in kind, perhaps by dispatching Soviet troops to buttress Syrian positions near the Golan Heights...
...legal guardians of college students, but the House system sets them up in loco parentis. The House masters could therefore not afford to let students run their own happy hours, no matter how discriminate in serving the students promised to be. The potential for a lawsuit is a powerful goad, and the clearcut wording of the new laws allow little room for dodging...
Many of the reports on the individual activities of corporations in South Africa were "sketchy" last year, Vagts said, adding, the committee "may very well" recommend that the Harvard Corporation use shareholder resolutions to goad the corporations into releasing more substantial information...
...Kissinger's intention to goad the Europeans and fuel new debate about defense on the Continent, he appeared to have succeeded. For one thing, Washington has been trying to overcome the reluctance of Western European countries to deploy long-range Pershing II and cruise missiles on their soil; so far only Britain and West Germany have accepted in principle. For another, the U.S. would like to ensure that all countries of Western Europe match its own new defense expenditures, currently set at a 3% military budget increase...
...energy crisis could serve as a goad to reinstate ingenuity and selfdiscipline. If it does, America may save more than energy. If it doesn't, America will find that oil is only the first of many other shortages...