Bossie may have arrived in Washington as a flame-throwing outsider, but during the previous decade he had become part of the conservative establishment.

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He became a member of the Society of St Pius X, which had been founded by Archbishop Lefebvre in 1970 to counter the reforms in the Church made by the Second Vatican Council during the previous decade.

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The foolishness of eliminating over the previous decade the necessary U.S. military force structure, compounded by the failure to make during that period appropriate investments in modernizing the armed forces, are illustrating yet again the costly false economies associated with cashing in "peace dividends" when international threats appear to have receded.

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