Word: brinkmanship
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...producing Arab nations would blow up their wells rather than let them be seized by U.S. forces. Rome worried that American intervention might risk nuclear war with the Soviets. In London, political leaders of all parties were privately troubled by what they felt was Kissinger's flirtation with "brinkmanship." Only the Israelis expressed satisfaction. "It was a good statement," said former Intelligence Chief Harm Herzog. "It makes the Arabs think twice...
...self-fulfilling prophecy that leaves the participants forever locked in a death struggle. The rise of Yasser Arafat's P.L.O. as the acknowledged voice of the Palestinians has not helped the cause of negotiation, but it is a fact that Israel must face. Nor does the game of brinkmanship, such as the one that is being played in the waning days of the U.N. mandate, bring peace any closer...
...knowledge of the rules of a game. California Split is about compulsion, not betting, so the conventions are disregarded. There are no looming closeups of nervously shifting eyes, sweaty foreheads and shaky hands. Altman's premise is that getting hooked on gambling is the kind of emotional brinkmanship that is suicide by inches. This knowledge runs through California Split like a cold current and is the source of the movie's stubborn power...
...France and Italy. His diaries record and recall that he championed the cause of European unity long before the Common Market came into being, warned that the U.S. would face an energy crisis if it did not deal more evenhandedly with the Arab nations, and decried Dulles' brinkmanship, arguing cogently for detente with the Soviet Union and against U.S. involvement in Indochina...
Increasingly, Britons began to question whether there really was a severe crisis-or if Heath might be playing some kind of brinkmanship with recalcitrant unions. In his budget message, Barber followed Heath's lead and heaped blame for most of the country's woes on the miners who are demanding a 33% increase in minimum wages. Astonishingly, he barely mentioned any of Britain's other problems or ways to deal with them, like the country's monumental trade deficit or its out-of-control inflation rate (10% this year...