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...results confounded the pundits, who predicted that opposition gains would be great enough to block Allende's legislative program and threaten him with impeachment...
...become real, the effects can be unsettling. To the U.S., the most disturbing effect is of course economic. Shortly after the devaluation of the dollar last month, President Nixon instructed Secretary of the Treasury George Shultz to get a "fairer shake" for U.S. trade, even if he had to threaten protectionism. Faced with a massive and seemingly irreversible balance of payments deficit, the U.S. has begun to demand trade and monetary concessions-and to question whether Western Europe is carrying its share of the common defense burden...
Spiraling prices could make European exports uncompetitive in world markets. The consequent reduction in demand would then lead to the unemployment that workers fear. But rising prices do not yet threaten the EEC's export performance. In part, that is because about half of its members' trade is within the Community, where inflation runs at roughly the same rate from country to country. Moreover, proximity of markets provides a cost barrier against imports from faraway countries like the U.S. and Japan...
...epee Harvard doesn't seem to have enough experience to threaten seriously. Only Eugene White has been in this type of tournament before and his showing last year is not likely to encourage many Harvard backers...
...quickly formed contingency plans. If the holdouts still would make no compromises, he would threaten to throw the case to the courts saying it was too much for those directly involved to handle. "Total strangers!" That would get some action, he thought...