Word: backed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...book about the world, power and the presidency, which will be published in April. By all accounts it is a drama filled with timpani rolls of peril, but with lightning flashes revealing the way back to preeminence...
...pants off you," Nixon says, feet up on his desk, spectacles on, leafing through his raw prose. "Dicey time ahead for the United States ... the next two decades will be a time of maximum crisis ... 1985 is the year we face inferiority. Not just No. 2, but way back...
...crescendo of barbarity. The indiscriminate killings brought bitter condemnation from the Catholic Church and political leaders. But in Ulster's impoverished Catholic enclaves the sight of a British soldier at the end of the street remained a sufficient spur to militance in a conflict that Irishmen track back for centuries. Soon the Protestant backlash added to, and in many cases surpassed, the Provos' terror...
...border, and to strengthen Israel's bargaining position in any future negotiations with Syria concerning the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights. The Israelis claim that Palestinian terrorists attempted 27 raids on Israeli territory from Lebanon in the past four months, and that each time the Palestinians were fought back or headed off. So the Israelis feel justified in bombing and strafing the border area at will, aiding the Lebanese Christian militia and maintaining three sophisticated observation posts in Lebanese territory...
...Tyre, once a lovely city of 60,000 people, with magnificent ruins dating back to the days of Alexander the Great, many homes and other buildings have been hammered into rubble by the Israeli attacks. Quite obviously these structures had no military significance. One can imagine an occasional mistake in wartime; but not when at least 100 civilian homes are destroyed in 24 hours, as happened last weekend. The bombs even hit a hospital to which 70 casualties of the bombings had already been brought. Of those 70 people, not one was a soldier...