  It is found on the basis of the lowest Landau level approach for the
Ginzburg-Landau model that, in bulk type II superconductors with strong line
disorder directed {\it perpendicularly} to an applied field, the continuous
vortex-glass transition is depressed to the low $T$ limit in the limit of weak
{\it point} disorder. An anomalous resistive broadening in twin-free YBCO with
columnar defects in a field parallel to the layers is discussed based on this
theoretical finding. Other phenomena which, we argue, arise indirectly from
this mechanism in type II superconductors including correlated defects are also
discussed.
