Word: maintaining
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...that began in 1984 over the U.S.'s right to dock nuclear-powered or -armed ships there. Last week the dispute led the two nations to move toward formally ending their mutual-defense treaty under the ANZUS (Australia, New Zealand, U.S.) alliance. While the U.S. and New Zealand will maintain their military agreements with Australia, they will no longer defend each other. After meeting with New Zealand Prime Minister David Lange in Manila, Shultz declared, "We part company as friends, but we do part company as far as the alliance is concerned." Nor is New Zealand alone in opposing visits...
...Europe, to France's state-owned Compagnie Generale d'Electricite, for an estimated $2 billion. If the deal goes through, it would give CGE (1985 sales: $11 billion) a hefty 12% of the global telecommunications market, making it No. 2 behind AT&T. ITT (1985 sales: $20 billion) would maintain a 30% interest in the businesses sold to CGE but would no longer control these operations...
...been outspoken about affirmative action, citing the need to maintain current federal laws mandating that employers meet goals in hiring minorities and women. In an opinion piece printed in the Washington Post earlier this year, Bok attacked efforts by the Justice Department to dismantle current affirmative action laws...
...striking thing about Botha's position and the future of the country is not that communists are threatening the stability of a U.S. ally which has claimed to maintain Western values, but rather that his government is evolving rapidly into an Eastern Block nation itself. The limits to which South Africa is willing to go to avoid recognizing the humanity of its majority population is equal only to the repression prevelent in the world's notoriously closed societies. If Pik Botha truly fears the totalitarianism that characterizes many communist governments, he should properly fear the direction of his own regime...
...mouth or anus of another" and provides a prison term of up to 20 years. The case reached the Supreme Court this spring. A Georgia assistant attorney general argued that a ruling protecting private homosexual and heterosexual acts between consenting adults would undermine the state's efforts to maintain a "decent and moral society" and would open the way to protecting polygamy, incest, adultery and prostitution. Harvard Law Professor Laurence Tribe countered that the case involved two precious constitutional freedoms: the right to engage in private sexual relations and the right to be free from Government intrusion into...