Word: brinkmanship
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...since the Cuban confrontation of 1962." The logical question, which spokesmen for the President have yet to answer adequately: How could a Cuban-type exercise in eyeballing take place in the midst of a détente that was designed to avoid just that kind of cold war brinkmanship...
...Kissinger said, it was a symptom of the times that Nixon did not. Instead, the suspicion arose that the President had overreacted to Soviet tough talk, either because his Watergate woes had impaired his judgment or because he wanted to divert public attention from them with a show of brinkmanship...
...almost went to war over the Chinese offshore islands of Quemoy and Matsu. "If you are scared to go to the brink, you are lost," Secretary of State John Foster Dulles said of the crisis, thus arousing anxious critics to denounce him for what they called "brinkmanship." Today, these half-forgotten pinpoints of land rank with the Rock of Gibraltar and the Maginot Line as among the world's most notable military anachronisms. Yet they are still guarded by an intrepid army of some 100,000 Chinese Nationalists, who are sporadically shelled every other day from the Communist mainland...
...risk of war with the Soviet Union by engaging in attacks on their ships and planes. I don't think Viet Nam is that important." Vermont Senator George Aiken, a senior Republican who had deplored the North Vietnamese invasion, criticized the mining as ineffective and called it "brinkmanship...
Another man in the middle, Ulster's Prime Minister Brian Faulkner, has tried to serve as a balancing force against Protestant extremists, even though he has lost all credibility with the Catholics. He denounced the march at Newry last week as "an exercise in irresponsible brinkmanship. " But he also told Protestants that they must accept more Catholics in the Stormont government or "dig still deeper trenches for a long and bloody battle...