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...little to defuse the situation. The U.S., which at first adopted a studiously neutral position, has now tilted slightly in Iraq's favor. Still, says a senior State Department official, "we don't have a lot of leverage." The U.S. is providing Saddam Hussein with indirect economic assistance aimed at helping Iraq build new oil pipelines through Jordan and Saudi Arabia. With Iraqi ports closed to shipping because of the war, the country has been unable to keep oil exports up to the level necessary to finance the conflict...
...swoon just before the State of the Union speech; traders bid the Dow Jones industrial average down almost eleven points on a rumor that the President had decided not to run. That only underscored Reagan's popularity among investors. Soviet President Yuri Andropov, of all people, gave Reagan an indirect boost by issuing a generally conciliatory statement hinting at possible resumption of Washington-Moscow nuclear-arms-control negotiations. By Sunday night Reagan was ready for a party. He summoned 400 campaign officials to a 6 p.m. reception in the East Room of the White House, then had them bused...
...control. When the attempt failed, so did the dictatorship. Somewhat the same fate of internal overthrow is feared by the regimes of Syria and Jordan, and to maintain their positions they are expending much of their time and energy to suppress these fundamentalist sects. Israel can now reap the indirect reward, if it so desires...
...your discussion of what constitutes aggression among nations [Nov. 14], you fail to distinguish between indirect aggression and revolution. Practically all revolutions have some sort of foreign support. I can hear George III screaming about a coup d'état in the American colonies where insurgents were acting as surrogates for the French...
Taking an indirect job at Mondule, who has told union groups that he supports some protectionist measures, Cranaton said he supports lowering tarriffs to improve foreign trade...