Word: blitzkrieg
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American leadership made possible punishing NATO airstrikes that rocked Serb forces still reeling from Croatia's blitzkrieg, and our resolution brought President Milosevic to end support for his Bosnian clients in an effort to end U.N. sanctions against Serbia. The balance has shifted in Bosnia, and the rebel Serbs recognize that continued conflict would only worsen their position. The Serbs have responded by making their first serious overtures toward peace...
...Dutch should know by now that we cannot pull our finger out of the fragile dike holding back the floods of fascism. They were neutral toward Hitler in the 1930s and said World War II wasn't their war either. That is, until they were overrun by the blitzkrieg and had to be saved by American and British forces. We must never forget...
...height of his absolutist influence, Louis XIV ordered a quick, decisive and successful bombardment of Algiers for harboring pirates. Afterward, a medal commemorating the event was inscribed with the words, "Algeria Fulminata" [Algiers Struck by Lightning]. In much the same vein, President Reagan could announce our successful blitzkrieg on the unruly Quadaffi in Libya in April, 1987; at the time, the U.S. still enjoyed virtual Sun King status in the West...
...This blitzkrieg reached the Senate last week. The Appropriations Committee sided with the House, voting to cut next year's NEA budget 40%. But there are still plenty of Republican voters (and not a few legislators) who would like to see their local symphony orchestra, town theater or children's art-education program survive, and know that the prospects of their survival are bound up with continuing, if modest, support from the NEA. Though the NEH and CPB will prove much harder to kill, the prospects of the NEA's survival in the long...
Greetings, dear telephone customer! are you bewildered by all the marketing pitches for long-distance service that AT&T, MCI and Sprint have been hurling at you? Well, you ain't seen nothing yet. Consider what's come until now as basic training for the blitzkrieg of packages and special offers that will arrive once Congress moves to deregulate local telephone service and cable-TV and let eager new competitors charge into that field, bringing business rivalries, price wars, heated local politics and...yes, of course, TV linkups over phone lines and phone calls via cable. "Things will go insane...