Word: arms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Usually it is the images of the immediate aftermath that are imprinted on the mind, the fragments of a normality shattered just a moment ago. The smoke from the bomb has scarcely cleared. Bodies on stretchers are jounced frantically toward the ambulances, and an arm waves at the camera to clear the way. Plaster clouds and torn clothes everywhere, the neighborhood blown out of its shoes. All in the same viewfinder: rescuers scramble in the chaos, a mother screams as if in Guernica, the stunned survivors move off with a slow, blank stare. The dead lie abruptly motionless wherever...
...decisive point is that we use our freedom to achieve good relations with the Soviet Union, rather than confrontation. East-West relations today are preoccupied with disarmament, rearmament or arms control. Experience teaches that it is not disarmament that points the way to peace, but rather that peaceful relations open the door to disarmament. States arm themselves against one another when there are poor relations between them, when they have no common interests or when these are not developed, when cooperation is rejected or not even attempted. But where concrete fields of cooperation are exploited or created, arms problems present...
...building new ships and warplanes hi the past three years. Yet if war broke out, the Navy would still not be able to send to sea enough carriers or air wings to fight effectively, according to a study released last week by the General Accounting Office, the investigative arm of Congress...
...Israeli ties to South Africa will undoubtably worsen so long as Israel continues to sell weapons to such countries as South Africa...." I don't doubt this. I also don't doubt the U.N.'s hypocrisy on this issue. From 1963 to 1975 more than $1 billion worth of arms were sold to South Africa. France was the largest supplier, followed by the U.K., the U.S. and West Germany. Israel's total sales during that period included six patrol boats and the surface-to-surface missiles to arm the boats. The Kingdom of Jordan, on the other hand, sold South...
...comes to life in her scenes with gentleman Jim (John Heard, in a brisk and engaging performance). "Somebody ought to-Ought to-kiss you, Laura!" Jim proclaims. As he leans in and embraces her, Laura surrenders her body and mouth to him, but not yet her wavering right arm. The hand pauses in midair, uncertain whether or how to commit, then grasps firmly at the hem of Jim's jacket-the gesture of a little girl lost, holding for what's left of her dear life on to her image of manhood, of the father who deserted...