Word: attacking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Both NATO and the Warsaw Pact are bent on topping each other in men and materials. Hasn't it ever occurred to the member countries of these organizations that no one intends to attack anyone else and that the staggering amount of money squandered is a useless and criminal waste...
Opposition to SALT already is impassioned and very well organized. Leading the attack is the Committee on the Present Danger, a blue-ribbon nonprofit think tank that was formed two years ago. Though it has only four full-time employees, its clout lies in the respect enjoyed by its 162 members, such as former Treasury Secretary C. Douglas Dillon, former Secretary of State Dean Rusk and AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer Lane Kirkland. Its principal SALT spokesman, Paul Nitze, Deputy Secretary of Defense under Lyndon Johnson and a SALT negotiator under Nixon, has an intimidating expertise on defense matters...
...talks began, Taipei officials outlined the "underlying principles" it regards as prerequisites to any new relations between Taiwan and the U.S. These included an American commitment to the security of the island from Communist attack, and a continuation of "government-to-government" relations between Washington and Taipei. Though there was hope in both capitals that economic and political relations would continue in another framework, everybody seemed to agree that the week of Jan. 1 was not an auspicious time for reconciliation. Pleading fatigue, Envoy Christopher canceled a formal dinner with Taiwanese leaders and, at week's end, returned...
...when he hears that the U.S. is surrounded by problems, Lyet likes to recall the old line about what French generals say when informed that their armies are surrounded: "Wonderful! This means we can attack in any direction...
...pain from a bad case of hemorrhoids and that surgery was being considered, inevitably there were some jokes. It is not an ailment an individual elects to advertise unless, like Carter, he must in order to cancel a day's schedule without giving the stock market a heart attack. There was also a great deal of sympathy, tacit and expressed. Wrote one Egyptian: "May Allah cure you. This illness should have been inflicted on an unjust leader rather than you, O Carter...