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...militarily formidable-a highly undesirable combination. With or without U.S. assistance, the Chinese military will be extremely backward for some time to come. In a crisis (over Indochina, say) with Washington and Peking allied against them, the Soviets might be tempted to attack just China, and thus call the bluff that the China card represents in strictly military terms...
...faith-especially in view of the arbitrary deadline set by Iran's Nabavi, who mysteriously threatened to break off the whole deal if the Americans failed to take some concrete action by the end of Friday's business day. State Department officials viewed this as mostly a bluff, but could not ignore it entirely...
...intelligence experts in Washington believe that the Kremlin will sooner or later have to use force in Poland. The likelihood of intervention will remain high, they say, even if the recent Soviet military buildup turns out to be a bluff. With no sign of easing tensions, Western analysts revised their initially optimistic estimates of an earlier East bloc summit in Moscow. At that meeting Party Boss Stanislaw Kania may not have got a reprieve, as first thought. Instead, he was apparently read the riot act: either revive the party and get the country moving again-or else. "These talks were...
...believes that Brzezinski puts too much emphasis on the "use of military power or bluff, ignoring, in my judgment, the political, the economic and trade aspects of our relationship with the Soviet Union...
...most boisterous meeting turned out, somewhat surprisingly, to be the one in the chambers of House Speaker Tip O'Neill, a bluff Democratic partisan who had never met Reagan. O'Neill clapped Reagan on the shoulders and boomed out introductions to Democratic Congressmen so loudly that they could be heard through closed doors. Then O'Neill took Reagan aside for 15 minutes of advice. Reported Tip: "I said to him, 'You were Governor of a state, but a Governor plays in the minor leagues. Now you're in the big leagues. Things might not move...