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...failed walkout did nothing to strengthen the position of British labor unions, which was battered earlier this year in a national coal strike. Concluded an editorial in the Guardian: "Union activists can misjudge the mood among the poor bloody infantry and find themselves galloping off at the head of a phantom army...
Toleration does not, however, translate into esteem, though there seems to be much less hysteria about Moon now than there was in the 1970s. California Cult Foe Lowell D. Streiker thinks Moon's imprisonment may strengthen the loyalties of disciples, "but it doesn't help in recruitment or in image building." An even stronger view is taken by Anson Shupe of the University of Texas at Arlington, an expert on the movement. He sees a loss of momentum in the Moon cult, viewing it as an organization in disarray, pouring "millions of dollars down the drain" and unable to hold...
...report also the facts about American corporate complicity with this state, the connection which sustains apartheid. U.S. corporations have $14 billion invested in South Africa, a fact which led the Senate Subcommittee on Africa to conclude in 1978 that the "net effect of American investment has been to strengthen the economic and military self-sufficiency of South Africa's apartheid regime...
...getting along and working together on mutual defense. Washington has made no secret of its concern about the "nuclear allergy" that recently led New Zealand to bar from its harbors nuclear-powered or nuclear-armed U.S. Navy vessels. Administration officials believe that Reagan's achievements in Quebec City will strengthen his hand in dealing with other U.S. allies and in disarmament talks currently under way with the Soviet Union in Geneva...
...notable departure, emphasized the roles of the Iraqi generals and other officers in the fighting. In the early days of the war, the only Iraqi singled out for praise was President Saddam Hussein, the man Ayatullah Khomeini is determined to destroy. Baghdad appeared to be trying to strengthen armed forces morale and emphasize the war's importance to the country as a whole...