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...continued influence in that region will cause our allies to lose confidence in our willingness and ability to come to their aid should the occasion arise. The Middle East is not the only hotbed of ideological turmoil. The effects of our actions in Lebanon will influence foreign opinion and weaken faith...
...status analogous to that of the French forces, prepared for use in Europe but also available for use in emergencies outside it. Any withdrawal would make sense only if the redeployed forces were added to our strategic reserve; if they were disbanded, the effect would be to weaken the overall defense...
...state and economic organizations. The result, he said, would be less duplication of effort. Said he: "Workers at municipalities, ministries and enterprises do not display the necessary independence, but shift to party bodies the matters that they should handle themselves." If such practices continued, warned Chernenko, they would weaken the party's political role. He reaffirmed that the party's strength must be "its contact with the masses" and "their practical attitude to production matters, to problems of public life...
...given their problems, Moroccans are doing a lot of hoping these days-hoping that the dollar will weaken, hoping that the U.S. economic upturn will spread across the Atlantic, hoping that the rains will come. Hassan, meanwhile, continues to hope for a calm without a storm...
...agency might be taken over by investors who would compromise its journalistic integrity. Says Spectator Editor Alexander Chancellor: "The shareholders will no longer be simply interested in the quality of the news product." Former Prime Minister James Callaghan, a leading opponent of the reorganization, says the move "will certainly weaken [Reuters'] independence." The company's trustees are considering a plan that will attempt to prevent any one group from dominating Reuters. Last Friday the House of Commons heatedly debated whether any such safeguards could be effective but decided not to block the proposed public sale...