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...FIRST TIME since the withdrawal of the last foreign troops from Vietnam in 1975, combat in the region raised the specter of superpower nuclear exchanges. But this time, no American families will receive form letters beginning We regret to inform you that...
...trickiest issue involves the impact normalization may have on U.S.-Soviet relations. Although Teng repeatedly used the U.S. as a forum to invoke the specter of Soviet "hegemony," Administration experts believe that Moscow was not too seriously upset. Teng apparently took care to say nothing that the Russians had not already heard from him. Said one State Department analyst: "Teng had it figured just about right; he knew what would play and what wouldn't." As a result, Moscow only mildly rebuked the U.S. Charged Pravda (inaccurately): "No one [in America] objected to the malicious anti-Soviet insinuations." Soviet...
Though many U.S. companies have in fact been quietly cutting back their European operations for some years, the specter of a wholesale pullout was not raised until last summer. Then, Chrysler Corp. abruptly announced that it was selling its European business to France's Peugeot-Citroën for $430 million in cash and stock in the French company. Since then, alarmist charges have regularly bobbed up in Europe's press. "The American multinationals are deserting," warns a French economic weekly. "U.S. business is at ebb tide," declares a Belgian magazine...
Their aim is not necessarily to make a profit, but rather to preserve capital from the ravages of inflation and the specter of creeping socialism in their own countries. All see the U.S. as a bulwark of political stability in a changing world...
City officials also object to another part of the plan which gives Harvard a one-month option of purchasing property owned by any Faculty member covered by the plan--raising the old specter of University expansion...