Word: armed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that May evening, the Boston weather was ominous, so the right-hander was taking his warm-up tosses deliberately, pacing him self. The 39 year old Tom Seaver knew his arm couldn't bounce right back after a rain delay, the was if had 20 years before...
...errors on the season, and has consistently demonstrated an incredibly accurate throwing arm. Last Sunday, when the Cantabs hosted Princeton, Rowning took over the field in the fifth and sixth, handling four consecutive chances--three grounders and a pop-up in the hole...
...Americans, the only one that would justify another war is the defense of the U.S. against a threat of direct attack. Decrying "this whole practice of contracting our military out just for the survival of some other government and country," Georgia Secretary of State Max Cleland, who lost an arm and both legs in Viet Nam, insists, "There is only one thing worth dying for, and that is this country, not somebody else...
...relies less on inherent economic or geopolitical advantages than on the domino theory: he points to Hanoi's present control of Cambodia and Laos and its steady pressure on Thailand. He acknowledges that the cease-fire agreement, which authorized tens of thousands of enemy soldiers to remain and re-arm themselves, inevitably imposed an onerous self-defense burden on South Viet Nam; thus its fate depended on continuing aid of more than $1 billion a year in 1975 dollars, which Congress refused to approve. Meanwhile, North Viet Nam flagrantly violated the accords. In effect, he says, the agreement amounted...
...same time, support for anti-Communist insurgencies has its limitations. As Nicaragua makes clear, the U.S. is still incapable of waging truly covert warfare of any magnitude. In this respect, the Soviets enjoy a permanent advantage. The First Chief Directorate of the KGB, the principal clandestine arm of Soviet foreign policy, can engage in dirty tricks while preserving its "plausible deniability." The CIA's Directorate for Operations, by contrast, is subject to oversight by a notoriously leaky and fastidious U.S. Congress...