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...barges, in train cars, in elevators and on farms that is contracted for overseas delivery. We will have a terrific problem straightening it all out." Said John Lambert, a barge operator in St. Paul: "We're concerned, particularly about our debt service. You can tie a barge to the shore, but you can't shut off bankers...
...those criteria will be given less priority now, at least in countries directly threatened by the Soviet Union or indirectly by its proxies. As it moves to shore up relations with nations around the arc of crisis, from radical Libya to reactionary Saudi Arabia, the Carter Administration is being less fastidious about the humanitarian virtues of the various regimes than it would have been before the Afghan crisis. A month ago, for example, Pakistan was a triple target for American pressure: the U.S. was working to thwart the country's nuclear aspirations, goading the military government to restore democracy...
...need: grain and advanced technology. Contracts for 17 million tons of grain, worth $2 billion, are being canceled. Soviet fishing privileges in American waters are also being severely curtailed, as are new cultural exchange programs; Carter further hinted that the U.S. might boycott this summer's Moscow Olympics. To shore up Afghanistan's neighbors, Carter said that the U.S. "along with other countries will provide military equipment, food and other assistance" to help Pakistan defend its independence...
...Netherlands and elsewhere, John Paul plainly seeks to shore up the church through doctrinal discipline. In Germany, Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger recently used a long dormant concordat to deny a professorship to Johann Baptist Metz, a leading exponent of Liberation Theology. The Vatican doctrinal office has also just issued a second attack on a liberal study of sexual morality commissioned by the Catholic Theological Society of America...
...picturesque beach. There they carry out a lengthy and teasing courtship that manages to merge the sentimentality of Lassie with the homoeroticism of Equus. Alec and the stal lion find food for each other, watch sun sets together and finally celebrate their relationship in a wild ride along the shore. Once the pah- are rescued and reach Alec's small-town American home, the film's mystical aura evaporates completely. What follows is a rehash of National Velvet...