Word: blusterous
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...hard-nosed bluster, the Kremlin appears to have realized how bad an impression it was making, and at week's end made unprecedented efforts at damage control. On Saturday Soviet TV screens showed an interview with an officer described as the pilot, name not given, who had shot down KAL 007; he insisted he had tried to warn it to land. He followed by a day a news conference in Moscow for both Soviet and foreign reporters that was televised live by satellite around the world. The main speaker: Marshal Nikolai Ogarkov, Soviet Chief of Staff and as such...
Nixon proposes institutionalizing U.S.-Soviet summitry through annual meetings that are patiently prepared and calmly executed. He even offers a short course on summitry: "An American President should be cordial in personal matters but unyielding in policy matters . . . a President achieves nothing by bluster and belligerence...
Presidential commands produced casualties. The bands were off-key. Bluster was meaningless in that jungle. Theater...
With characteristic bluster, Gaddafi vowed that his air force would "destroy" the Eisenhower if it entered the Gulf of Sidra, which Libya claims. Although the U.S. and most other nations-including the Soviet Union-do not honor any Libyan claim beyond the usual twelve-mile limit, the Eisenhower remained just outside the Gulf of Sidra. Nonetheless, two F-14 jets from the carrier drove off a pair of Libyan MiG-23 jets that they encountered on patrol. Neither side opened fire. In a similar incident two years ago, a pair of U.S. F-14s shot down two Libyan...
...ready until February. The Administration long before then will have to offer a more convincing explanation of its purposes in Central America if it is to retain enough public support to carry out its policies. Said the Raleigh (N.C.) News & Observer, in an editorial headlined LATIN POLICY BLUSTER: "If President Reagan encouraged any hopes that the bipartisan commission he appointed might broaden his view of Central America, he is doing everything possible to douse them...