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...policy lessen U.S. support of the United Nations. By setting up new safeguards against the external Soviet threat, the U.S. hoped that the U.N. would be able to grapple more freely and more effectively than ever before with the region's internal problems, e.g., Israel v. the Arabs. And as for subversion, Dwight Eisenhower was already on the record that he would oppose the entry into the Middle East of any Soviet "volunteers...
...Fleet, which he immediately began running his own way. "I cannot tell you how exciting it is," he wrote to his close friends, "to hold in my two hot hands a large part of the striking power of the Navy. Others may pull the strings and add to or lessen my frustrations, strengthen or weaken, sharpen or blunt the weapon before it is handed to me; but it is I who have it. It is mine to shape and polish, inspire or confound, instruct or confuse, ready or sheathe, and employ wisely or foolishly...
...NATURAL-GAS BILL is being drafted by Texas oilmen, who are readying united-front to fight federal control of field gas prices. Oilmen will push bill in next Congress, hope to lessen opposition of consumer groups by including in draft a clause designed to protect gas users against overpricing...
...leak, with the attendant publicity, seemed to at least one member of the Committee to lessen the chances of Jordan's remaining here in some capacity other than football coach, a possibility that apparently had been considered...
...trustbusters did not charge that the merged companies would create a monopoly; they charged merely that the bigger company "may substantially lessen competition or tend to create a monopoly." Both sides were anxious for the first court test of a key legal point: just how big may business legally grow by mergers...