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...defending Western Europe. A Pentagon report released last week concluded that, of the 16 NATO countries, only the U.S., Canada and Luxembourg had consistently met the 3% goal since 1980. NATO's conventional forces, Nunn argued, currently serve as "little more than a delayed trip wire for early resort to nuclear escalation," because they could do little to halt a Soviet invasion without tactical nuclear weapons...
...created in 1944 to keep order in the international monetary system. Its guiding genius, British Economist John Maynard Keynes, wanted it to be a true lender of last resort, a global central bank capable of creating its own money. His ideas were deemed too visionary, and the fund's role was limited to helping member states-45 at the beginning, 146 today-ride out balance of payments difficulties. A country in deficit could apply to the IMF for low-interest loans. In return, the IMF required the debtor government to put its economic house in order. When the deficits...
...deploying the Pershing IIs and Tomahawks in the absence of a negotiated settlement in INF. Also, the Soviet Union cannot be allowed to veto the implementation of a collective decision of the Western Alliance. Nor should the Soviets be permitted to get their way in diplomacy when they resort to ultimatums and nonnegotiable demands...
...deploying the Pershing IIs and Tomahawks in the absence of a negotiated settlement in INF. Also, the Soviet Union cannot be allowed to veto the implementation of a collective decision of the Western Alliance. Nor should the Soviets be permitted to get their way in diplomacy when they resort to ultimatums and nonnegotiable demands...
...does not attempt to appraise Belushi or to put him into any social or moral perspective. Like Sergeant Joe Friday, Woodward goes for just the facts, and they do not take him very far or deep. Since many of the facts are known from the headlines anyway, Woodward must resort to details. In large part, this means recounting endless rounds of drug blowouts, frazzled work sessions and show-biz parties. There are occasional testimonials to Belushi's sweetness (he and his wife make love on a Martha's Vineyard cliff; he buys his father a ranch in California...