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...linking the sanctions to conditions in Poland, the U.S. is in the awkward position of relying on the Poles and their Soviet mentors to make possible a healing of the split in NATO. Some Western European governments, however, are exploring another possible compromise: a crackdown on loans to the Soviet bloc, in return for a partial lifting of the pipeline-equipment ban. The U.S. had tried to win such a promise at last month's Versailles summit. West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt last week discussed with Dutch Prime Minister Andreas van Agt the credit restrictions they might impose...
Through some rather awkward plot manipulations, Flynn himself eventually ends up inside the system, reduced to the status of one of the many programs. From there, he and the good program, Tron, join hands in battle against the forces...
...King's death came at an awkward moment. The Israeli invasion of Lebanon had once again exposed the weaknesses and divisions of the Arab world. And Iran's recent victories in the war with Iraq posed an indirect threat to the moderate Arab monarchies of the Persian Gulf...
...process a new determination to play a major role in world affairs." That change could have broad implications. As Malcolm Rutherford, assistant editor of London's Financial Times, put it, Britain could "become more demanding toward Europe, less tolerant of the Irish Republic and generally a more awkward ally, taking a pride in British cussedness rather as the French took pride in being different under De Gaulle...
...drive had-painted vans which reiterate the them. From atop the vans and portable scaffolding, flushed faces call out hoarsely to all who pass below. "Show us your tits!" Most ignore the demands, but every so often a woman will clamber up onto a van and perform an awkward striptease to the cheers and jeers of the crowd below. One entrepreneur paid for her admission several times by collecting donations in the front of her scoop-neck T-shirt...