Word: blunting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...elite troops, 105,000 well-paid, well-trained Republican Guards, are being held in reserve, some around Baghdad, most in southern Iraq. From there, they could be rushed to any point at which American and allied forces are threatening to break through the Iraqi front. That strategy worked to blunt several Iranian offensives during the eight-year Iran-Iraq war, but U.S. planners are hoping that this time many Republican Guards will never get through the incessant bombing and strafing to reach the front...
Speaking before a group of about 35 students gathered at a Sever Hall forum, Mpho Lekgoro and Brian Thami Hlongwa offered a blunt representation of the volatile situation in their country as well as insight into the present policies of the African National Congress...
...native Nebraska and outside the domains of the political cognoscenti, Kerrey, 47, is known, if at all, as actress Debra Winger's sometime boyfriend. But since taking his seat in the U.S. Senate 21 months ago, J. Robert Kerrey has emerged as an intriguing figure in a capital where blunt talk is a scarce commodity that attracts lots of attention. Explains Democratic pollster Harrison Hickman, who has worked for Kerrey: "He isn't caught up in status quo thinking. I don't know if I have seen anyone quite so fearless." There is of course a dissenting view...
...Inside Story. In addition to revealing in a TIME excerpt last week that President Franklin Roosevelt's key aide, Harry Hopkins, was an unwitting accomplice of the KGB, Gordievsky contends that Cairncross was a member of a spy ring that included Guy Burgess, Donald Maclean, Kim Philby and Anthony Blunt. Though Cairncross was ousted from a sensitive government post in 1951 for allegedly passing documents to the Soviets, his spy connection was never proved. Last week he continued to deny that he is the missing link. But British intelligence sources back up Gordievsky's story...
...matter of politics as well as principle. That these governments are now in a military alliance with the U.S., Israel's principal supporter, is a source of embarrassment -- and potentially of instability -- at home. The assassination last week of Egypt's speaker of parliament Rifaat el-Mahgoub was a blunt reminder of just how vulnerable these governments have become. While no one claimed responsibility for killing el- Mahgoub, who was shot in his car by four gunmen who escaped on motorcycles, authorities said the murder probably was carried out either by a foreign hit squad, most likely Palestinians...