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...percent of their trade with the Soviets. Only 1 percent of their trade is conducted with the U.S. And finally, the Europeans lack the domestic gas resources of this country. The Europeans feel the pipeline was a necessary compromise, and they resent U.S. interference, especially after Washington gave implicit support for the project during its early planning stages. Thatcher has demonstrated the extent of her anger by publicly advising the British-based John Brown Engineering that it should defy the prohibition on U.S. subsidiaries from working on the pipeline. France and Italy have announced official plans to ignore the sanctions...
...scenes. But Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger and Vice President George Bush argued that a business-as-usual attitude toward Israeli aggression would cost the U.S. even more credibility among the moderate Arab states, which, despite Administration efforts to dissuade them, were convinced that Israel had been given the implicit backing of Washington for the invasion...
...freeze proposal has helped attract so many millions of sympathizers. More precise or complicated nuclear arms control prescriptions-shelving plans for land-based cruise missiles in Europe, say -would not make inspirational rallying cries. And although the movement's freeze resolutions call for "bilateralism," the daunting difficulties implicit in U.S.-Soviet negotiations are rarely given more than glancing, wishful consideration. Says Molander of Ground Zero's 1983 plans: "Our next step is to approach the problem of how you go about dealing with the Russians...
...week for relations between Moscow and Washington. The official Soviet press denounced President Reagan's call for a "crusade" against totalitarianism in his speech before Britain's Parliament. After the outbreak of war in the Middle East, Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev sent Reagan an implicit warning over the hot line...
Although the book lacks any humor and quality, it inevitably will sell well because of the implicit guarantee. You come with us kid, and you've got it made a high grade point average, a flawless transcript, a ticket to the grad school of your choice. "What more could an eager freshman ask for? As the author argue. "What you have actually learned is something else entirely...no one expects you to "know" anything. They just want to see that little piece of paper covered with honors...