Word: threatens
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...Muskie campaign needs a skilled director. His staff was unprepared for the candidate's unusually fast start, and scheduling details have sometimes gone awry. Bernhard must also avoid two conflicting dangers that threaten the front runner: overexposure that could bore voters before the primaries, and an overly cautious approach to issues that might feed the contention of critics that Muskie is indecisive...
...vigorous Communist advance. On one level, it was a punitive jab at Souvanna Phouma. The Premier is anxious to end the Laotian fighting, which has forced an incredible number of refugees into U.S.-run camps: 700,000, or 30% of the population. But hard-liners on the right threaten real trouble if Souvanna should open serious peace talks with the Pathet Lao or if he should suffer another major defeat. "If Long Cheng or the Bolovens Plateau falls," said one Laotian general, "Souvanna is finished." The Communist advance was also a signal to Abrams that if the U.S. menaced...
...committee. The Texas regents tried to bar Boyle from representing groups against the university. In turn, the lawyer argued that the regents had violated state laws by adopting a new rule without adequate notice. If the regents sustain the ban at their meeting this week, Boyle's supporters threaten to sue them in federal court for violating the students' right to counsel...
...agreed to waive the antitrust laws for U.S. participants. The companies are confronting representatives of the main oil-producing nations: Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Libya, Abu Dhabi, Qatar, Algeria, Saudi Arabia, Indonesia and Venezuela. In their quest for money the producing countries can bargain with muscle because they can always threaten to cut off shipments to Europe, which gets 85% of its oil from them, and to Japan, which depends on the Middle East for 91% of its supplies. They also have an intriguing if not altogether logical argument for higher prices: for every gallon of oil, they collect just...
Particular stress was laid on the budgetary problems that Harvard and American universities in general face. At the morning panel, Francis H. Burr '35, Senior Fellow of the Corporation, said that deficit spending and continued shortage of funds would increasingly threaten the status of private universities in the next 20 years...