Word: bomb
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...incentive to sell and not really paying heed to the law. Many of these parts are small and may not be discovered if somebody carries them out in a suitcase. I would say the West is responsible for not applying its own rules rigidly enough. We believe the bomb the Pakistanis are making--or have made--has been financed not just by Pakistan but by certain Arab countries. The real danger is not just Pakistan having this weapon but of its going to people who will not have the ability to prevent proliferation...
...India's nuclear program. We are not going nuclear. Our old decision not to build a bomb remains. But I am not saying the decision is irrevocable...
...great toxic-waste mess oozed its way into the nation's consciousness, and its conscience, a little more than five years ago. "An environmental emergency," declared the Surgeon General in 1980. "A ticking time bomb primed to go off," warned the Environmental Protection Agency. The reaction was typically all-American: Congress created a grand-sounding "Superfund," a $1.6 billion, five-year crash program designed to clean up thousands of leaking dumps that were threatening to contaminate much of the nation's underground water supplies...
...Israelis could not have failed to calculate that this action would liquidate the Jordanian- Palestinian peace initiative." He said he hoped the P.L.O. would not return to a policy of terrorism. "But let's face it," he added. "The moderate Palestinians stretched out their hand and had a bomb placed...
...Treasury Secretary , James Baker last week, they dropped what they were doing and rushed to Washington. Huddling in his Treasury Building office with the moneymen and Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker, Baker gave a 95-minute preview of a new Reagan Administration plan for defusing the Third World debt bomb. Meanwhile, in New York City, a group of bankers representing 600 international lenders agreed to grant Mexico an emergency six-month extension on nearly $1 billion of IOUs. While those events unfolded, the sharp impact of another new Washington strategy was being felt around the world. Spurred...