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...calling for closer ties to Saddam and the continued supply of guaranteed credits to buy U.S. grain ($500 million worth were extended the next month) and technology. His rationale: Iraq had the region's largest army, second largest oil reserves, ties to Moscow that would be nice to weaken and big ambitions to be a local power. The U.S. wanted some influence -- and some export sales...
...Report May Seriously Weaken Influence of Campus Eating Clubs...
...report released this week at Princeton University may seriously weaken the influence of the campus' eating clubs, ancient social organizations that include most upperclass students...
...hope this will bring freshmen into the larger academic community, it won't weaken house system, which its the core of the Harvard undergraduate experience," he said...
...Greece and Turkey are both members of NATO, they have bickered constantly over airspace, territorial waters and the continental shelf, sometimes coming to the brink of war. Both long ago became adept at playing Moscow and Washington against each other: the Kremlin used the Cyprus imbroglio to try to weaken the Western alliance and to make all kinds of mischief in the eastern Mediterranean, from conducting espionage to sponsoring terrorism...