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...will be a slow 1% to 2% a year. Oil producers, especially those with heavy foreign debts, may pick the U.S. as a worthy target. Writing in the current issue of Foreign Affairs, Edward Morse, a former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State, maintains that the oil slump could further taint the attitudes of those countries "toward the West in general, and the U.S. in particular, provoking a likely nationalistic response based on a belief that Western governments somehow engineered the price collapse. It would possibly further fuel Islamic fundamental nationalism in the Persian Gulf...
Some students have expressed similar concern that the allegations will taint the school's reputation...
Meanwhile, in Manila, Marcos said yesterday that sore losers and "modern-day imperialists" in foreign capitals are trying to taint his election victory. The critics he castigated say he won by fraud...
Bush's decision to join the Loeb tribute highlights the battle that is already under way for the mantle of Reaganism. For five years Bush has acted as an unabashed cheerleader for Reagan's programs in an effort to shed the moderate taint that can destroy a Republican hopeful these days. Nevertheless, the loyal Vice President is likely to face a strong challenge on the right, notably from New York Congressman Jack Kemp, who missed the dinner...
...Crimson elections to its executive board. Menn is a junior and this was his big chance to make The Crimson's inner sanctum his own. "Platonic Dialogue?" is his official cover letter for his Crimson application, an attempt to clear his record once and for all of any taint of Communist politics. Any anti-Soviet junior Cold Warrior at The Crimson could have written Joe's "opinion piece" (though to be fair most would not be so crude...