Word: note
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...access to credit; failure to follow suit, U.S. farmers argued, could shut them out of the huge Soviet market. But farm- belt lawmakers complained that the credit guarantees did not go far enough: Senate minority leader Robert Dole of Kansas had hoped for at least $3 billion. Trade experts note that because of Moscow's shortage of hard currency reserves, the U.S.S.R. needed the credits simply to match its normal level of U.S. imports...
...Editor's Note: The authors are professors at Dartmouth Colloge. This letter was also signed by 21 other Dartmouth College professors...
Advocates of presidential authority note a similarity between the present situation and one in 1950, when Harry Truman committed U.S. forces to the defense of South Korea in compliance with a United Nations Security Council resolution. But Columbia Law School's Louis Henkin notes that "Congress immediately ratified and acquiesced in the action." Moreover, he says, "we have no case where the President went to war when Congress told...
...antiapartheid movement has taken note of Afrikaner angst, but is not necessarily impressed. "No one in a high position has actually said they are sorry for all the hurt they have caused to victims of apartheid," says Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu. "We blacks, for our part, are ready to forgive. But the other party must be contrite and ready to do reparation. Your contrition will be demonstrated by your willingness to make amends. We cannot just say, 'Let bygones be bygones...
...come up with dramatic foreign policy initiatives. But despite the danger to oil supplies, critical for a country that imports virtually all its crude, the public considers the gulf too far away to be a threat. Japan has pledged $4 billion to the coalition -- an amount that, U.S. critics note, is far less than the $6 billion Matsushita paid last week to acquire...