Word: bipolarity
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...deterrence needn't last forever; while maintaining crisis stability, the U.S. should be continually striving for longer-term security. Arms control efforts that do not destabilize the strategic balance, pursuit of "detente with our illusions," attempts to moderate Soviet policy and warm the present bipolar chill, and improved conflict resolution machinery are particular desirable. For as the study group concludes...
...solucion, then, has to incorporate the Left. Even seen through Washington's bipolar lenses, such a prescription has a certain appeal of necessity. Our own intelligence tells us that the guerrillas are slowly defeating the Salvadoran military. The choice for U.S. policy makers is clear: either continue to prop up the present government and die a drawn out. Vietnam-like death, or press for real negotiations and come away with a compromise in the form of a coalition government...
...real assurances, Arab assurances in particular, that "Never again!" is not a cry of anguish limited to Jews. To enforce it from the inside requires something more, a sense of Israel's own worth, not militarily, which is already too well proved, not as an outpost in the bipolar diplomatic wars, but of its and interior value as a civilization, as a structure built and enhanced not only by those who honor history but by those who know when and how to take chances. There may be another side to Santayana's excessively quoted aphorism, that those...
...frustrating for Reagan to watch American technology, albeit produced abroad, facilitate a project to which he is vehemently opposed; besides, he is technically within his rights in ordering the sanctions. Nevertheless, he is inexcusably naive to believe that complex international economic ties could be made to conform with a bipolar political policy...
...Falkland situation, the United States helped pave the way for Argentina's transgression of accepted codes of international law through its kid-gloves treatment of Argentina's repressive regime, the consequence of the Reagan Administration's fundamentally fallacious distinction between authoritarian and totalitarian dictatorships. Its vision clouded by its bipolar world view, the Administration tailed to show Argentinas just how seriously it takes violations of human rights or its most recent flouting of diplomatic standards...