Word: seeks
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...Latin America. The U.S. must not condone the idea that justice rests exclusively in the hands of those who seek change by resorting to bloodshed, terrorism and so-called wars of liberation. I would have hoped that somewhat more visionary treatment could have been given to Nicaraguan Dictator Anastasio Somoza-and whatever warts he and his regime manifested-without decapitation...
...Human Rights. America must be in the vanguard of the search for social justice not only here at home but globally. We cannot seek, however, to create mirror images of the U.S. in every developing area throughout the world. It neither serves the purpose of social justice nor the vital interests of America to pursue policies under the rubric of human rights that have the practical consequence of driving authoritarian regimes, traditionally friendly to the West, into totalitarian models where they will remain in a state of permanent animosity to the American people and their interests...
Says Buthelezi: "KwaZulu will never seek independence of the kind offered by Pretoria. The homelands policy is futile and meaningless. We will opt to remain South Africans and gain the right to participate in the government of this country...
...capital. For most of the past 40 years this city has been used to new Presidents' promising dramatic departures but actually only reassembling existing ideas and programs under new slogans. Already Reagan has been urged by his advance scouts to reconsider the proposed new MX missile system and seek a cheaper and more imaginative modification of our current missile arsenal. It has been recommended that upon taking office tie declare a national economic emergency; that he seek congressional authority for a series of radical steps to bolster the private sector...
...being sold on the spot market is commanding about $40 per bbl. The price of heating oil on the East Coast is expected to increase from about $1 per gal. to perhaps $1.25 per gal. by early next year. Those rising prices are themselves encouraging cartel members to seek crude oil increases, thus intensifying the vicious circle of spiraling prices...