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...majority argues that arms sales don't create allies. This statement is as evasive as it is obvious. Arms sales alone are not intended to create allies, but rather to strengthen lies already existing between the U.S. and its allies. All states have legitimate security requirements; to deny politically friendly states arms is merely to weaken their international position, which in turn reduces American influence abroad...
Exactly what Vellucci will have to pledge is unclear. Councilor David Sullivan said yesterday that "a lot of people will be watching how Al Vellucci votes" on an ordinance designed to strengthen the city's condominium ordinance...
...months the Soviet Union has been gaining a long-coveted foothold in Iran. In mid-October the ruling Islamic Republic Party accepted Moscow's offer to send agents to Iran to strengthen Tehran's intelligence and security forces, as well as bolster the Islamic Guard, the I.R.P.'s military arm. Another Soviet team was dispatched to assist in rebuilding the country's devastated economy. Now the Soviets, in their boldest ploy to date, are pressing Iran to sign a mutual cooperation pact that would effectively draw Khomeini's revolutionary government into Moscow's sphere...
...Period." The giant A T & T was indeed abusing its privileged monopoly position and will be broken up. But the giant IBM has legally achieved its important position in the computer industry and will be allowed to continue in its present form. Last week's decisions will help strengthen competition in both the communications and computer industries. -By Christopher Byron. Reported by David Beckwith/Washington Frederick Ungeheuer/New York
Sanctions often ultimately strengthen rather than weaken their intended victim. The U.N. embargo of Rhodesia, which began in 1966, spurred that country to improve greatly its own domestic manufacturing capacity. Some scholars believe that the same thing could happen in the Soviet Union. Says Robert L. Paarlberg, a professor of political science at Wellesley: "Sanctions might stimulate the Soviets to develop more indigenous technological capabilities that might in the long run strengthen the Communist state...