Word: tenuousness
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...operation to assist the embattled guerrillas. Like most of the world, the U.S. was outraged when the Soviets invaded Afghanistan and proceeded to transform it into a puppet state. That shock, together with widespread sympathy for the mujahedin, has not abated as Moscow has tried to consolidate its tenuous control over the nation by resorting to carpet bombing, chemical warfare and outright massacre of civilians...
...Mailgrams to White House Deputy Chief of Staff Michael Deaver last winter, urging that the Administration discourage the Soviet Olympic contingent from attending; in early January Deaver sent back a standard, innocuous reply, explaining that "the U.S. will welcome athletes from all nations." The only other connection, almost as tenuous, was a speech last March in Los Angeles by Assistant Secretary of State Elliot Abrams to the Baltic-American Freedom League, a member of Balsiger's coalition...
Council power hangs in a tenuous balance between the liberal Cambridge Civic Association (CCA)-affiliated councilors, who favored the smoking ban, and the conservative Independents, who opposed the measure on the grounds that it would unfairly restrict private enterprise...
...Maine, explaining his vote last week for the antimining resolution: "We know that mines cannot distinguish between commercial vessels and those laden with Soviet and Cuban weapons ... With the destruction of each economic target in Nicaragua or in its harbors, our policy and its rationale become more tortured and tenuous...
...were killed and scores of others injured, making March 28 the worst single day of violence in seven weeks. The heavy shelling led to urgent consultations among Lebanon's warlords, and President Amin Gemayel convened the first meeting of the security commission created at the Lausanne conference. A tenuous cease-fire seemed to end yet another spurt of chaos...