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...entry into the Common Market, perhaps bringing an end to its cozy Commonwealth tariff preferences, is a source of anxiety.How deep the anxiety goes was indicated last fall at the Commonwealth conference in Ghana, where a Canadian Cabinet minister bluntly warned the British that their Common Market entry "could weaken the Commonwealth to a point where it exists in name only...
Bjorklund vaccine is made by grinding up cancer cells and irradiating them with ultraviolet rays to weaken any viruses that might be present. Dr. Bjorklund and a team of 14 other researchers, including his wife, have been working with it, largely supported by research money from the U.S. Government. Two years ago, Dr. Bjorklund was on the verge of deserting his work at Sweden's State Bacteriological Laboratories when the U.S. Public Health Service came to his rescue with a three-year grant...
Conquering Design. Stevenson argued that the admission of Red China would 1) be irreversible. 2) add a "disruptive and demoralizing influence" to the U.N., 3) shake public confidence in the U.N., especially in the U.S., "and this alone would significantly weaken the organization," and 4) give tacit consent to Red China's "design to conquer Taiwan and the eleven million people who live there...
...based on the conviction that the Soviet Union has made some substantial advances in nuclear strength in its test series. Some military and scientific leaders fear that the Russians have made important breakthroughs in nuclear technology, including the testing or development of an anti-missile missile that could weaken the effectiveness of the U.S.'s retaliatory power. But there is no actual evidence yet to indicate any such giant Russian strides. What worries the AEC more is that the Russian tests may have severely reduced the atomic lead that the U.S. now enjoys, thus strengthening the Soviet Union...
...such cases, the U.S. aid could serve to weaken the "monolithic character" of the Soviet camp...