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...election" that focused on the country's future role within the 16-nation Western Alliance. He had called the vote after the opposition passed a motion strengthening a 31-year-old ban, never enforced, against nuclear-armed naval vessels' visiting Danish ports. Strict observation of that prohibition would severely hamper the operations of NATO warships in Denmark's waters. Implicitly, the Prime Minister was raising a key question: How far can a small country go in assuming lesser risks and obligations than its partners in a military alliance...
Dukakis is ever-cautious and aides say there has been no discussion of bringing Sasso back if Dukakis wins the nomination, which appears inevitable. A Sasso presence in the campaign would hamper any Dukakis effort to criticize George Bush on the alleged "sleaze factor" of Reagan administration officials accused of wrongdoing...
...quietly applauding those who keep them fit to earn accolades: the practitioners of a fast-growing field called performing-arts medicine. Within the past decade some dozen programs and clinics have sprung up in the U.S. devoted to diagnosing, treating and preventing the physical and emotional ills that can hamper artistic careers. Staffed by medical specialists, dentists, nurses, psychologists, physical therapists and social workers -- many of whom are amateur performers themselves -- the centers offer artists the same sort of sophisticated care routinely provided for star athletes...
...from "animals commonly caught in leg-hold traps." The British Fur Trade Association said it was not overly worried, since the law applies only to skins of wild animals and some 85% of all skins sold in Britain are farm- bred. But the B.F.T.A. complained that the move could hamper its research "into humane trapping methods...
...opponents of the buildup object that chemical weapons are not necessarily superior to other kinds of arms and that their main tactical use is to hamper the effectiveness of enemy troops by forcing them to don unwieldy protective suits. By producing an updated generation of the toxins, critics contend, the Pentagon will only escalate a chemical-arms race, and the U.S. alone, according to the American Chemical Association, already possesses more than 5,000 times enough nerve gas to kill everyone on earth...