Word: arsenale
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...events sent tensions rising again: the passage in 1988 of the U.S. omnibus trade bill, which provided an arsenal of retaliatory weapons; and adoption of the E.C.'s plan to create a single market by 1992, which Washington fears will entrench a Fortress Europe behind a Siegfried Line of trade barriers. Alleged European discrimination against American telecommunications equipment is the latest U.S. casus belli; the E.C., for its part, accuses the U.S. of playing "war games" with farm legislation in the current major round of international trade negotiations, the so-called Uruguay Round, which culminates in December...
...dealings these days. Tough in more ways than one. During Shevardnadze's five sessions with Baker, some serious snags appeared in the Strategic Arms Reduction Talks (START). Afterward, a senior Soviet official said it was "impractical" to assume that a pact limiting the most destructive portions of the superpower arsenal would be signed at the Bush-Gorbachev meeting. Nonetheless both U.S. and Soviet sides agreed that all the major issues involved -- if not the fine print -- would be resolved...
...best defense was an overwhelming offense. The military budget, which had regularly been increased as national income grew, was frozen in 1987. Gorbachev's intentions became clearer in December 1988, when he told the United Nations he would unilaterally cut his military by 500,000 men and his $ arsenal of tanks...
...comrades may yet buy the argument. But if they do, it will be because for them unpredictability is a code word for the dangers they see in a larger Germany with a larger role in the economic and political life of Europe, perhaps eventually with its own nuclear arsenal. The same anxiety motivates Czechoslovakia's playwright-President Vaclav Havel, Poland's Solidarity Prime Minister Tadeusz Mazowiecki and many politicians in Western Europe. If they accept Bush's idea of NATO uber alles, it will be as a hedge against the resurgence of a malevolent Deutschland. But will the government...
Instead, the Cubans shipped in a small arsenal. On March 9 a Cuban transport plane landed in Brasilia carrying 100 passengers and crew members. According to the Rio daily Jornal do Brasil, there were also ten tons of weaponry aboard. At first the Cubans tried to convince the hosts that the cargo consisted of medical supplies. When the Brazilians insisted on an inspection, they discovered machine guns, grenades, an antiaircraft gun, even missiles...