Word: back-down
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...enactment of the proposal, no congressional approval is necessary, and officials agree that the Reagan Administration is not likely to back-down...
Given the stated determination of the United States to use military power, if necessary, to estimate the Soviet threat in the Western Hemisphere, Khrushchev's back-down was inevitable. The crisis illustrates once again that when one power is in a position to use direct military power in defense of what it regards as its vital interests, the other power will retreat. This was the lesson of Korea in 1950 and of Hungary in 1956; it is the lesson of Cuba...
...first flush relief at Khrushchev's back-down, it is all too easy to forget that the United States got itself into the crisis. The Eisenhower and the Kennedy Administrations closed off, one by one, avenues of conciliation and negotiation with Castro, invested the Cuban revolution with a significance-the wrong significance at that-far beyond its real meaning, and convinced themselves and the entire country that the establishment of a Socialist dictatorship in Cuba constituted a danger which ultimately could be dealt with only by force...
...President was talking explicitly to Premier Khrushchev and the Soviet leadership. He assumed that the military build-up of the beleaguered island was no longer a matter of Cuban authority. And if he offered any political leeway (even the alternative of a back-down), it was to the Soviet suppliers, not the Cuban consumers...
...Irish call Gladstone's back-down the "destruction of coercion...
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