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...Nixon administration does not want to talk from a position of weakness and therefore it has chosen to continue the bombing of the country with the slight hope that it could weaken the revolutionary Khmer forces...
...model cars. New medical evidence, he says, shows that the levels set three years ago were unreasonably strict. However, Ruckelshaus insists that the White House put no pressure on him during the current debate, and believes that the year's delay in imposing the full standards will weaken the force of the industry's arguments with motorists, Congressmen and judges...
...have been subjected to some terrible blows and we haven't defended ourselves well," Beer warned the Faculty. He went on to say that the reform amendments, introduced by William Paul, McKay Professor of Applied Physics, would "weaken our defenses...
...points with his superiors on the Nixon committee. The lawyers for the other defendants and the defendants themselves in and out of court offered their own implausible variety of motives: E. Howard Hunt implied that he had joined the operation because he feared that a liberal Democratic President might weaken U.S. policy toward Communism (TIME, Jan. 29); McCord had joined because he believed that the bugging might intercept some nefarious plot against the Republicans planned by a left-wing group; and the four other defendants had become involved because Hunt, their former boss during the Cuban invasion, told them...
...committee report cites the danger of possible seepage of reservoir water through the dam. The seepage could weaken the dam enough so that it would burst. the report said. releasing 20 million tons of water directly above nearby Cornwall...