Word: strongest
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British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher protested the mining in the strongest terms to Jeane Kirkpatrick, U.S. Ambassador to the U.N., who was in London. Privately, her ministers explained that they fear Reagan is heading toward a showdown with the Sandinistas that will make it all the harder to justify U.S. foreign policy to a European public already highly uneasy about placement of American nuclear missiles in Britain and on the Continent. Said a British government minister: "Grenada, Lebanon and now Nicaragua, again. These gung-ho displays really do not help us in defending American behavior." Said Kirkpatrick, replying to allied...
Coach Dave Fish said Columbia may be the strongest team in the Ivy League this year. "They just kept on top of us enough that we didn't get the shots we needed," said Fish...
...immediately shocking fact is a statistic, more than 90 countries in the world routinely practice torture, according to the study. These include some of the largest industrial notions: China, the Soviet Union, Brazil and India, to name but a few. Every continent save North America experiences torture: even our strongest ally, Britain, is knows to have used extensive police brutality in war-torn Northern Ireland...
This was questionable. Total American trade with the U.S.S.R. amounts to much less than 1% of the Soviet gross national product. Nor had the U.S. displayed the willingness and ability to use very effectively what economic leverage it had. In April 1981, the Administration misplayed the strongest card it held when President Reagan lifted the grain embargo against the Soviet Union. President Carter had embargoed the sale of U.S. agricultural products to the U.S.S.R. in January 1980 in reaction to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. During the campaign, Reagan had promised to lift it. Secretary of Agriculture John Block reminded...
...earlier that month. I was fearful of the worst, but determined that the historical record would show that the State Department had fought for a rational course by opposing the extension of sanctions to overseas manufacturers. At the NSC meeting, which I did not attend, Clark placed only the strongest option paper before Reagan, who uncharacteristically approved it on the spot. There had been little discussion and virtually no participation by the President before this decision was formalized...