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...lenses by day, exposes them when they are switched on at night. Trouble is, in a few cases turned-on lights have been covered up unexpectedly, causing sudden blackouts. So Ford decided to play it safe and check every car, even though its engineers are sure that "the likelihood of this occurrence is not great." It is even less likely that the frank and open recall campaign will hurt the Cougar's popularity, which pushed Lincoln-Mercury's mid-May sales 25% ahead of the same period last year...
...likelihood, it was the threat of a coalition between Papandreou's Center Union party and the moderates of a the National Radical Union that forced the Army's hand. Much of the past conflict between Constantine and Papandreou has developed from the power and political allegiance of the Army. It became the focus of suspicion and drove the factions to extremes...
This group accepts and welcomes the lessening of cold war tensions; it concedes that the likelihood of a massive Soviet military attack across the Western front is less than it ever was. But it looks to a shift of Soviet-efforts to gain advantage on the politival and economic front, and it calls for renewed United States efforts on those fronts, jockeying for position vis-a-vis the Russians with our European friends and allies...
...reform seems to coincide with popular opinion. In a survey taken by the University of Chicago's National Opinion Research Center, 71% favored legal abortion when the woman's health is seriously endangered, 56% when the pregnancy resulted from rape, and 55% when there is strong likelihood that the child would be born defective...
...Name in Moscow. The consular treaty is the keystone of President Johnson's policy of "building bridges" to the East. Ratification would not only reduce the likelihood of international incidents over infractions by unlucky or unwise tourists (which have increased as larger numbers of American travelers -18,000 last year-visit the Soviet Union); it would also serve as an important spur to other East-West agreements. Though the Russians have said repeatedly that no major breakthrough can come while the U.S. is fighting in North Viet Nam, lesser agreements, notably the treaty banning weapons of mass destruction from...