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...Soviet energy increases as much as it probably will when the pipeline is complete." A report by the Senate Energy Committee warned last December that the pipeline could split the NATO alliance because it would reduce Western European resistance to Soviet pressure. The report concluded: "The U.S.S.R. can strengthen its economic influence over the West and reduce cohesion among the U.S. and its allies on political, economic and military matters to the extent that it can increase its gas exports to Western Europe...
...message to Reagan officials was that such a loan would be an effective political lever. There is disagreement, he admitted frankly, between hard-liners and moderates in both the Polish government and its Politburo about seeking financial assistance in the West. By granting aid, the U.S. presumably could strengthen the hand of the moderates in Warsaw...
...figures strengthen but do not prove suspicions that Rely was the leading cause of TSS. Other tampon brands have also been implicated. The percentage of menstruating women using tampons exclusively has dropped from 70% to 55%. Although the apparent easing of the TSS threat is welcome news, puzzled scientists still do not know how the insertion of a mass of absorbent material could create an encouraging environment for mischievous microbes...
Yedinsky said she hopes her presence will strengthen ties between the GSA and "other groups of oppressed people and minorities...
David Dressler, lecturer in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, said Cairns had done "elegant work" and that his appointment would "strengthen the intellectual foundation of the school of Harvard...