Word: regarded
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Most conservatives have always mistrusted detente. Liberals still overwhelmingly favor the idea but have grown more wary. Many are insisting that the Ford Administration should demand more specific concessions from the Russians as the Soviet contribution to this mutual policy. Others object to what they regard as contradictory tendencies within the Administration toward the Soviet Union. New York Post Columnist James Wechsler, for example, charges the Ford Administration with glaring inconsistency when the President exchanges toasts with Soviet Leader Leonid Brezhnev at the same time that Defense Secretary James Schlesinger bewails the loss of anti-Soviet intelligence bases in Turkey...
...Basic Error. As the Russians had hoped, the final form of the declaration states that "the participating states regard as inviolable all one another's frontiers ... and will refrain now and in the future from assaulting these frontiers." With characteristic ambiguity, however, it also says: "They consider that their frontiers can be changed, in accordance with international law, by peaceful means and by agreement." This latter point was the sine qua non for the West German government, since it provides, at least hypothetically, for the eventual reunification of Germany...
...apparently disturbed by foreign reaction, issued a confusing modification of the pledge that provoked another flurry of telexed exchanges between the harried foreign correspondents and their home-office editors. The new version required journalists to acknowledge "receipt" of the censorship guidelines and to undertake "full responsibility for reports in regard to these guidelines," but extracted no explicit promise to submit to them. That left the press wondering whether the government had in effect backed down. Journalists from several Western news organizations, including CBS, the New York Times and the Christian Science Monitor, felt that the pledge was now "innocuous...
...year. Although Lisbon could then draw upon its huge gold stocks-worth $5 billion at current market prices, making it the eighth largest hoard in the world-any significant sale of bullion would likely be politically explosive. The ordinary Portuguese, a notorious gold bug, would rightly regard the sale as an act of desperation...
...international commercial convenience rather than a U.S. military necessity; in fiscal 1974, 149.7 million long tons of shipping passed through it. Most of the traffic is American, though the canal is open to all. In recent years, the Panamanians have been galled by what they regard as a humiliatingly one-sided and outdated arrangement. In 1964, a series of bloody, nationalistic riots against American control of the canal left 26 people dead. The U.S. thereupon agreed to renegotiate its 1903 treaty status, with the eventual goal of returning the canal to Panamanian sovereignty...