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Taken amid mounting transatlantic trade tensions over steel, agriculture and textiles, Reagan's pipeline decision confirmed suspicions within the Community that Washington, in pursuit of its goals, was riding roughshod over Western Europe's economies. Rightly or wrongly, Western European leaders had been led by Secretary of State Alexander Haig and other officials to believe that the U.S. was willing to soften its opposition to the pipeline in the interest of harmony, and specifically in exchange for a European agreement-feeble though it was-to tighten credit to the Soviet bloc...
...perceived by those people who know him as a real political operative," who may tend to ride roughshod over a younger colleague's argument, says one political ally. "He's very quick and sometimes people mistake that for arrogance," he adds...
This is the story of a game that you, the Harvard Hockey fan, mixed. The story of a team that you had given up on after last Saturday night's roughshod chapter, a 5-3 loss to Yale. A story that is new for from over...
Pete Townshend: Empty Glass (Atco). In which the generative force of the Who covers matters sacred and profane with roughshod lyricism...
...Soviet Union. They accuse the Carter Administration of vacillation and sending out conflicting signals-ranging from its early emphasis on human rights to last fall's "minicrisis" over Soviet troops in Cuba. No wonder, in the view of Paris, the Soviets got the impression that they could ride roughshod over the West. The French feel that Washington does not fully appreciate their efforts in seeking to contain Moscow-inspired expansionism in Africa, a role that has earned them the sobriquet "the West's Cubans." In Chad, Mauritania, Zaire and, last month in Tunisia, the French moved quickly...