Word: undercuttings
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...West European movement has added to the troubles besetting transatlantic cooperation, and it has greatly assisted the Soviet Union's propaganda offensive aimed at splitting the NATO alliance. Morever, European protests against U.S. defense policies have further undercut what little prospect there is for success in the European missile negotiations in Geneva. The demonstrations
What is more, a negotiated settlement would undercut the U.S. position in the East-West struggle with the Soviet Union; it would be proof that the leading power in the West could not find a way to protect a friendly government close at hand. The U.S. would appear to lack the strategy, the power and the will to influence events in the world at large. In Central and South America, where U.S. resolve is already under question, the result would be particularly troublesome...
Mugabe said ominously that "the law will now take its course" against Nkomo and dismissed three other key ZAPU party members, though he stopped short of firing four others. The apparent attempt to confine the sackings to a few ZAPU leaders for the moment undercut increasingly vocal complaints from opposition critics, especially among Zimbabwe's 210,000 whites, that Mugabe is moving to establish a one-party state...
...President for his approval?if only to buy time. I flashed a message to Scowcroft uncharacteristically objecting to the grant: "I must be in a position to insist to the Russians that I must pass proposals back to the President for his consideration. Any reference to full authority would undercut this ability...
...would be trying to rescue. Besides, the rationale for the Administration's ends and means in El Salvador rests on the reassurances, repeated by Haig's deputy Thomas Enders only last week, that the U.S. seeks a political, not a military, solution. Sending in troops would undercut the already precarious credibility of that policy...