Word: launching
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Consumed by their domestic problems, Western Europe's governments are hardly in a position to launch a bold, coordinated attack on their common enemy, the economic crisis. Yet these governments recognize that that is just what is needed. Chancellor Schmidt has already urged daily consultation among the West's major economic powers to mesh policy. President Giscard has called for a summit of the Common Market nations' leaders. If solutions do not emerge soon, Europe could be on its way either to astronomical inflation or mass business failures and double-digit unemployment. These conditions, if allowed...
...Governor Malcolm Wilson, and busied himself with his newly constituted National Commission on Critical Choices for Americans, which was created to grapple with the major issues of the day. The commission would give him the opportunity to think big without political trivia getting in the way. It might help launch him into national office, and if he got there, it could provide valuable assistance. The commission was modeled on an earlier endeavor, America at Mid-Century, a study set up in 1956 with young Harvard Professor Henry Kissinger as one of its directors...
Such a weakening of NATO and American tactical capability do not go unnoticed by Moscow. While the Greek defection from NATO will certainly not encourage the Soviets to launch an all out war-U.S. nuclear retaliatory force prevents that-it could embolden the Russians in the Middle East. For example, the Soviet fleet might be tempted in a future crisis to blockade Israeli ports or protect the movements of Syrian and Egyptian warships from Israeli forces. What could be even more disruptive to East-West stability, Russia -despite détente-might dare to intervene in the turmoil...
...refused to endorse the party's presidential nominee, Senator Barry Goldwater of Arizona. Indeed, a dozen conservative Republican Senators have already urged Ford to reject Rockefeller and nominate Goldwater instead. Still, Rockefeller has taken increasingly conservative positions on public issues. He left the governorship in 1973 to launch his Commission on Critical Choices for Americans, one of whose members is Gerald Ford. The founding of that group was regarded as a convenient way for Rockefeller to keep himself politically alive and active...
Need Help. The Havasupai have even more formidable champions. Senator Edward Kennedy urged his House colleagues to pass the amendment because the Havasupai "are not going to build a dam, or put up a factory, or launch a tourist extravaganza." Senator Barry Goldwater said the Sierra Club has become "a closed society, a self-centered, selfish group, who care for nothing but ideas which they themselves originate and which fit only their personal conceptions of the way of life everyone else should be compelled to live." Hubert Humphrey, another Senate supporter, said the amendment would not be environmentally disruptive because...