Word: adventurist
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...appointment struck the world's chanceries as odd -- the Georgian was a provincial politician with no experience in world affairs -- and as an indication that Gorbachev intended to be his own Foreign Minister. That assessment was wrong. In reality, the two planned together to tame the country's adventurist foreign policy and make it the servant of domestic needs...
...time when his popularity has climbed to new heights abroad, Gorbachev must fend off growing attacks at home from two fronts: what he calls the "adventurists" and the "reactionaries." Last week the Soviet leader took on the adventurist radicals, criticizing them for racing "like firemen, with clanging bells" to abolish the constitutional guarantee of Communist Party rule. The Congress decided not to take up the contentious question of Article 6, voting 1,138 to 839, with 56 abstentions. But the margin of victory was not so comfortable that the Kremlin could indefinitely ignore the East European-like rush to multiparty...
...Kremlin's new master offered no bold foreign policy initiatives. He restated his nation's commitment to the principle of "peaceful coexistence" and railed against the "reckless, adventurist actions of imperialism's aggressive forces." The Soviet Union, he said, did not seek military superiority, but would not allow others to upset the strategic balance. In a passage that must have pleased the military establishment, he promised to "see to it that our country's defense capacity be strengthened, that we should have enough means to cool the hot heads of militant adventurists...
...insistently by foes, friends and even some U.S. diplomats: Does President Reagan really have a foreign policy? Supporters of the Administration argue that there are clearly defined major policy goals-to rebuild U.S. defenses, to repair old alliances and forge new ones with anti-Communist regimes, to confront the adventurist meddling of the Soviets and their clients-but that these have been somewhat obscured by indifferent execution. Critics contend that these apparent goals are really just a set of attitudes, that under Reagan and Secretary of State Alexander Haig, U.S. foreign policy has essentially become a series of scrambles...
After so many false starts, the cloak of secrecy sheltering the operation was beginning to fray. On May 22, word of the raid was leaked to Moshe Shahal, a Knesset opposition party leader. His source: former Defense Minister Ezer Weizman, who viewed the proposed strike as "adventurist." At roughly the same time, Begin's office received two additional intelligence reports that the Iraqis were prepared to activate the reactor (make it "hot" in technical jargon) as early as the first week in July. On June 5, Begin gave orders to launch the attack two days later. His day of decision...