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WILSON: No. It's your prerogative to ask somebody to come as your advisor. You'll have to decide for yourself by making that statement to what degree this places you under the onus of acting insincerely. This is a problem we can't solve for you. All I can say is that we went over this today and we said if a person wants to bring a person as his advisor he can, even if he's a CRIMSON reporter. But CRIMSON reporters can't come in simply to report...
Escaping the Onus. Actually, the sale of Immobiliare reflected the Pope's decision that church control of major Italian companies had become a liability. The Vatican owns some $200 million worth of stock in Italian firms. The church until recently either controlled or owned a substantial part of at least a dozen important enterprises, including cement-making Italcementi, paper-manufacturing Cartiere Burgo, pasta-making Molini Biondi and Vianini, a major engineering firm. The investments provide a handsome income to help defray the huge cost of running the papal establishment. But social unrest is growing in Italy. Anxious to align...
...closing days of World War I. When the Weimar Republic was established in 1919, the first government was led by the Socialists, who ruled for two years. It was a dubious honor. Socialist Foreign Minister Hermann Muller was obliged to sign the harsh Versailles Treaty, putting the onus of Germany's defeat on the party that many nationalists already blamed for stabbing the country in the back by calling for the overthrow of the mon archy while the war was still going on. In 1928, another Socialist-led government took power. But Germany, beset by inflation and plagued by increasing...
...that will eventually amount to $3 billion. The measures were an artful melange of reductions already taken and some for the future, and he accompanied them with the warning that they would cause an "inevitable weakening of our worldwide military posture." That helped placate his officers, put the principal onus on Congress for the cuts if anything should go wrong, and preserve the credit for Richard Nixon if all goes well. At the same press conference, Laird moved to bring to a halt the wrangling over a military-contingency plan that the U.S. signed with Thailand in 1965. "It does...
...goes the theory, would strengthen the moderates. Therefore, it might well be unwise to wait until the new regime is actually in place before the U.S. restyles its policy. By trying to draw China into the world mainstream, however futile at present, the U.S. could at least put the onus of intransigence on Peking. At best it could involve Peking in economic and cultural ties that might encourage the moderates...