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...West Germans if they do not follow through on the treaty. By punish, the Russians most probably mean that they would put the old German card back into play to block Bonn's overtures to other East bloc countries. But Brandt is hoping that the Soviet impulse will be offset by Moscow's hunger for West German technology. That may not be a bad calculation. Notes Richard Lowenthal, an expert on Eastern Europe at the Free University of Berlin: "Despite Moscow's increasingly active global role, the Soviets are on the road of decline?not in the military-or political...
...heads of government also issued a joint statement calling for the resumption of the Jarring Arab-Israeli talks. And they conferred about this week's U.S. decision to establish a small air-naval-and-communications base on the British-held atoll of Diego Garcia to help offset the Soviet Union's growing naval presence in the Indian Ocean...
...economy, if its resources of manpower and plant had been fully utilized.* Retail sales foundered, and corporate profit margins retreated to their lowest level in twelve years. The nation's real output of goods and services declined about .2%. That happened because the 5.3% price inflation more than offset the 5.1% growth of gross national product...
...came much closer than a lot of people expected. His strategy called for him to cut slightly into the Republican majority on Cape Cod, break even in Plymouth County, and then come out of the Democratic strongholds of Weymouth and New Bedford with a large enough majority to offset the Cape, and win. He lost because he did not break even in strongly Republican Plymouth County, where Keith's smear attempts-distributed by local Republicans in "Studds Sheets"-undoubtedly had an effect...
Regardless of how Harvard plays defense, it should manhandle Springfield on the boards. The Chiefs have only two big men, and with effective screening on the defensive boards and aggressive play on the offensive boards, the Crimson could offset Springfield's back-court play by Waterman and 6' junior Dana Anderson...