Word: buildups
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...think both he and I share this advantage of not being part of the Washington scene. It's time for new faces. The people who were part of this enormous buildup of Government are not the ones who can change...
...greatest fears were that it might already be too late to find a political solution to Africa's problems, given the momentum of the guerrilla buildup against Rhodesia. Nyerere had warned even before Kissinger's speech that "the war has already begun." Echoing that sentiment, Kaunda urged that Kissinger's program be "worked upon as quickly as possible, because in terms of time we do not have it." In response, Kissinger made it clear that the U.S. would be glad to act as a mediator in negotiations between black liberationists and the Rhodesian government...
...hostility toward the military that grew out of the Viet Nam War has ebbed. At the same time, Congressmen, like their constituents, have become suspicious of the Soviets. Among the reasons: the accelerating Russian arms buildup, Soviet intervention in Angola and stagnation of the SALT talks to limit nuclear weapons. Complains Robert Sherman, an aide to two congressional critics of the Pentagon: "The House has been hopelessly spooked...
Arnhem Bridge. El Alamein epitomized Montgomery's battlefield style: a long, careful buildup of matériel superiority followed by a massive frontal attack with secondary flanking pushes. These tactics were successful in many battles-at Mareth, Tunisia, the Sangro River in Italy, and Caen, France-but they also led to some disasters. The most notable was the ill-starred 1944 operation "Market Garden," a Montgomery plan to march straight into Germany's Ruhr Valley by seizing five bridges that crossed the Rhine in Holland. The drive collapsed at the crucial crossing, Arnhem Bridge, with a devastating defeat...
...well beyond Libya's defense needs, Israeli officials view them as a kind of "Arab weapons-supply depot" accessible to any nation willing to fight Israel. The huge Saudi and Iraqi arsenals could be put to the same use. Compounding Jerusalem's worries about the Arab arms buildup was the creation last year of a joint Syrian-Jordanian military command on Israel's eastern front...