Word: supporting
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When the fight reached the floor of the House, conservatives managed to round up enough support to defeat the bill, 203 to 192. Several Congressmen blamed the beating on poor Administration lobbying...
...they profess. DeVoss has learned that on two occasions the Soviets advised Taraki to distance himself from Amin and reduce his power. Taraki responded by replacing Amin as Defense Minister last March. But he was unable to reduce Amin's influence with the top Khalq military officers; their support enabled him to repossess the defense portfolio in June and, presumably, to carry out his coup...
...aides to come to Lebanon. A similar invitation was extended to the Rev. Jesse Jackson, president of People United to Save Humanity (PUSH), who expects to visit the area this week. The wily guerrilla leader clearly expected that the P.L.O. cause would benefit from the S.C.L.C. delegation's support for the creation of a Palestinian homeland and from its visits to villages and refugee camps in southern Lebanon that Israel had destroyed in retaliation for terrorist attacks...
...winners, the problem of forming a government with a single-vote majority was compounded by the fact that the three non-socialist parties are deeply divided on the country's two main political issues: nuclear energy and taxes. The Conservatives support further construction of nuclear reactors, which the Center Party and half of the Liberal Party oppose. All three parties want to reduce Sweden's exorbitant income taxes, but cannot agree on how else to pay for Western Europe's most expensive welfare state. The most likely prospect seemed to be either another feeble minority government...
...reasons deeply rooted in the ideology of the regime and the structure of internal Soviet politics, Soviet foreign policy will remain antagonistic to the West and especially the U.S. The world-power ambitions of the Soviet leaders, and any likely successors, plus their confidence in their capability to support their ambitions with material resources, suggest that the U.S.S.R. will press their challenge to Western interests with increasing vigor and in certain situations assume risks which heretofore would have seemed excessively dangerous...