Word: weakenings
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Menachem Begin [Sept. 20] has said, "A friend does not weaken his friend." Begin's actions have weakened the U.S. in the Middle East, especially with the moderate Arab states. Before Begin accuses the U.S. of not being a true friend, he should look at his own actions...
...induced to lash out and use their enormous military capability. It would be suicidal but it is a possibility. That is why it is so counterproductive for the President to imply that we are militarily inferior to the Soviet Union. We are not, but this claim tends to weaken the confidence of our own people, shakes the foundations of our alliances and might induce the Soviets to make a suicidal miscalculation...
...induced to vote against the interests of the country?bought legitimately, with political threats on one hand and financial rewards on the other. The situation is getting worse. You have not only the financial payoffs with contributions and honorariums, but a tendency by Congress and the Administration to weaken ethics restraints. There are also those right-wing political-action committees that can spend hundreds of thousands to promote or defeat a candidate. Their scruples are sometimes nonexistent...
...statesman as experienced as Schmidt. Said former British Chancellor of the Exchequer Denis Healey last week: "Helmut Schmidt is the only Western leader at the moment who has experience, a policy and imagination. He will leave a very serious gap." Still, Schmidt's departure should not weaken the bonds between London and Bonn. Though Schmidt and British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher enjoyed good personal relations, Britain's Conservative Party is ideologically closer to West Germany's Christian Democrats. The opposite will be true for France. During his summer holidays, President Francois Mitterrand is said to have been...
...stick fortress that crumbles every time you realize that the whole game comes down to psyching up for a given morning in October. Still you obediently attack the arguments Stanley provides for you. You root out faulty linkage between evidence and conclusion. Indeed, which information if true will most weaken the author's discussion? What is the, most appropriate title for this passage--"Ground Glass: Roughage for the Eighties" or "Startling New Discovery Turns Roughage...