Word: weakens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have to halt its lucrative oil exports, including 129 million bbl. to such Western nations as Italy, West Germany and Austria. Last year petroleum was the largest Soviet export, with about $6 billion in precious foreign exchange coming from Western Europe alone. An end to oil exports, moreover, would weaken the political and economic hegemony the Soviets have over their East bloc satellites and Cuba, which are heavily dependent on Soviet petroleum supplies...
...holding press conferences denouncing the meeting. Marian Wright Edelman, director of the Children's Defense Fund, told the delegates: "The issue is not whether government interferes; it already does. Our job is to make sure specific governmental and private-sector actions help, not hurt children and strengthen, not weaken families." The conference, insisted its delegates, would not demand big spending programs but would seek ways of aiding families through measures like tax credits and incentives...
...Soviet drive for domination cannot be blunted by what he calls "American purists who inspect the world with white gloves and disdain association with any but the spotless." Nixon feels it is imperative not to weaken our allies by insisting too rigidly on internal reforms, but he skips over the fact that a repressive regime may fall of its own weight. Part of the dilemma for the U.S. is to decide at what point an allied regime is still viable...
...Even Jimmy Carter's modest and sound proposal to register 18-year-olds for potential, though certainly not imminent, military service set off college demonstrations. Few politicians would risk supporting a draft today, and even if there were political support the draft debate could divide the nation and thus weaken its military credibility and determination in the eyes of the world. This would undermine one of the goals that restoring the draft was intended to achieve...
...John Paul II, the Roman Catholic Church has reasserted longstanding rules for the Mass. Its decree also attacks "abuses" that have grown more or less widespread, especially in Western Europe and the U.S., since the liturgical changes of Vatican II. The Pope is clearly concerned about practices that may weaken the sacredness and ritual strength of the ancient Mass, or blur the distinction between clergy and laity. The new Vatican statement, though, is sure to stir some resistance...