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Diplomats argue persuasively that a policy based on this view would leave the U.S. to confront Soviet expansionism all alone. No country would enter or maintain an alliance with a U.S. that specifically refused to fight in its defense. But in the real world, an outright Soviet attack against a country that the U.S. is committed by treaty to defend is quite unlikely. The decision whether or not to fight most probably would be posed by a Communist threat to a friendly nation that is not formally an ally. And then the threat might well be raised not by open...
Glynn was assigned outright to Pawtucket, but, as a three-year major league veteran, may choose to become a free agent within three days...
...added that the resolution, which will be debated at next Monday's city council meeting, "strongly condemns (Senate Bill) 2142 as an outright attack on teas of thousands of low and moderate income and elderly tenants in Cambridge and elsewhere...
...were at least partly to blame for the clash and pointed out that "some of those enforcing the law and using the guns were also black." He added that his Administration had no thoughts of amending its policy of "constructive engagement," under which it uses diplomatic pressure rather than outright ostracism to nudge South Africa toward reform. Professing themselves "outraged and disgusted" by Reagan's comments, members of the United Democratic Front, an alliance of nonwhite organizations, refused to meet with Crocker...
There hasn't been an outright winner now in three years, either...