Word: outright
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However, there are plenty of outright disasters. Secretary of Agriculture John Block, an Illinois farmer himself, returned to his home state last week to inspect the devastation. The drought there is thought to be the worst in 30 years. In downstate Bond County, where some 80% of the corn crop has been destroyed, Block's National Guard helicopter swooped down onto a field of sorry, 6-in.-high cornstalk stumps. "I can personally feel the pain," he said as he looked out over Farmer Richard Weiss's acreage, "because I have looked at my own fields. They...
...tolerating Nkomo's return, Mugabe may be preparing to carry out plans to replace Zimbabwe's pluralistic system with one-party rule. If he banned Nkomo's party outright, Mugabe would, in effect, remove 20% of the country's population from any role in government. To achieve his goal peacefully, Mugabe may still have to cut a deal with his rival...
...series of meetings that stretched over three days, U.S. officials assured Gemayel that they would stress to the Israelis that any redeployment should be the first stage of a complete pullout. To assuage Gemayel further, the Administration also agreed to transform $150 million in loans to the Lebanese into outright grants. But by the time Reagan met with Gemayel for two hours last Friday, it was clear that the U.S. had no new strategies. Said a senior American diplomat: "Frankly, the best we can do for Lebanon is work with them to restore a sense of momentum on complete withdrawal...
When the Soviets first reacted to Reagan's speech, through the official news agency, TASS, it was with the customary assertions that the U.S. aims at "gaining military superiority and pressing the Soviet Union into unilateral disarmament." The Soviet response, however, did not reject the new proposals outright. Indeed, some Western diplomats in Moscow feel that the Soviets may be grudgingly prepared to make a deal, if not on START, at least on the issue of limiting intermediate-range nuclear missiles in Europe...
...course, the situation in El Salvador has become as polarized that many of the guerrillas are in the Soviet camp and it may be too late for a peaceful settlement. Yet continued civil war--and that, clearly, is the logical result of Reagan's policy, for side, short of outright intervention by the United States, can win--means more senseless deaths. A last--ditch attempt at a settlement is imperative if we are to prevent the Vietnam analogy from becoming more than just effective rhetoric. But as the recent dismissals of Undersecretary of State for Central American Thomas O. Endears...