Word: armed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...border provinces. On the other side, the Chileans, bracing for a possible invasion, are mining the desert, implanting tank traps and building fortifications. While tensions across this sere, sparsely populated frontier have smoldering for nearly a century, the situation lately has become especially volatile as Peru and Chile frantically arm...
...most touching song is "Sam Stone," about a Vietnam vet who comes back a heroin addict. The gravel-voiced Prine is the man's child, singing: "There's a hole in Daddy's arm where all the money goes," and the effect is chilling...
...expecting them to realize that the move would cause other papers to strike in sympathy and thus deprive the rally of press coverage. He awaited boos and hisses. But the crowd cheered wildly, excited at the news that police had begun to treat the organized strikers with such strong-arm tactics...
...strength and bankrolls of the big business boom that carried through the last presidential election, and Chirac will not jeopardize the support of France's large capitalists by breaking ranks with Giscard's majority on any serious reform issues. The difference between them will remain in strong-arm appeal; he will oppose the rage of the lower-middle classes against the Giscardian liberalism of the upper-middle classes. To keep his political momentum going, Chirac will have to raise the rhetorical, and reactionary, stakes...
...STRATEGIC ARMS LIMITATION TALKS. The biggest achievement so far is the limitation of anti-ballistic missiles, and I would hate to see that jeopardized. We should work hard to get [a second] agreement. We should not feel under the pressure that if we don't give in on some things by October [when the 1972 SALT I treaty expires] the world will come to an end or even that negotiations will. [The talks have been snagged for months on how to deal with two new weapons: the U.S. cruise missile and the Soviet Backfire bomber.] I would be willing...