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the present context to have the support of all those who are disillusioned with, among other things, the country's slow economic progress, the diminution of its international status, the seemingly never- ending dependence on foreign aid of various sorts, and the steady strengthening of fissiparous tendencies and regional loyalties. For these elements, many of them with Leftist sympathies, the economic and political discipline, the enforced self-reliance and the compulsion to subjugate regional loyalties to a national goal which a total commitment to a nuclear armaments programme will supposedly entail appeal highly attractive. Then there are those in the ruling Congress