Word: blustering
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...Religious Freedom, a 20-year-old Christian-advocacy organization. But he has harsh words for some of the scare tactics used by some of the more militant Christian-law groups. "We don't need a Christian ACLU," he says. "The ACLU gets most of its results from bluster, saber rattling and intimidation. Any organization that claims to serve a God of truth should not be about any of that business." McFarland points out that he has been able to resolve many of his cases with a phone call or letter to a local attorney general or school board...
...frequency as Washington beat the war drums louder. Last week U.S. intelligence intercepted communications from Cedras to colleagues in which he said he would determine his course after seeing how the American people reacted to Clinton's speech Thursday night. Publicly, both sides put on a vigorous display of bluster. Clinton in effect called the Cedras clique a gang of murderers. He ticked off a catalogue of their atrocities -- "executing children, raping women, killing priests" and said the U.S. had only one message for them: "Your time is up. Leave now, or we will force you from power." Cedras replied...
Behind a smoke screen of diplomacy and bluster, Kim Il Sung may have produced at least one atom bomb; the CIA says the odds are "better than even" that he has. Last week he gave signs that he might be gathering plutonium to produce five others, and even more when a new and larger reactor begins operating next year. In that case, would Clinton use force to uphold the policy of nuclear nonproliferation, or would North Korea resort to war to preserve its right to have the Bomb...
...posturing and tough talk were all it took to remedy the U.S.-Japan trade gap, everything would be fine by now. The grumpy Feb. 11 encounter in Washington between Bill Clinton and Japanese Prime Minister Morihiro Hosokawa has produced a surplus of bluster. "We will not modify our position," Hosokawa warned afterward. "It's just not acceptable for the United States to continue on the same path," Clinton warned back last week. But as both sides grumbled, they tried to keep the brinkmanship within bounds. "The intent and fact are to be measured and calm about this," insisted a White...
...Serbs have been alternating bluster with hints of cooperation to leave open -- probably up to the expiration of the ultimatum -- whether they will provoke air strikes or not. Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic makes the absurd claim that the Muslims faked the whole market carnage, using mannequins, professional actors to portray the wounded and old corpses provided by obliging Croat forces, who would have had to smuggle them into Sarajevo through Serb lines. Jovan Zametica, spokesman for the self-described Bosnian Serb government, remarks, "If NATO aircraft attack, we'll take them out." Drunken Serb soldiers on a hillside south...