Word: buildups
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Arab arms buildup is particularly worrisome to Israel and its American Jewish supporters. With predictable grumbling from Jerusalem, the U.S. has sold arms to Jordan, Saudi Arabia and other Arab states that played minor roles in the 1973 war. This month, though, Washington announced that it intends to sell six C-130 Hercules military transport planes to Egypt (total cost: $50 million). Fearing that this may merely foreshadow future large-scale arms shipments to the Egyptians, leaders of American Jewish organizations last week warned President Ford they were "strenuously opposed" to the deal, and that any further sales to Cairo...
...advantages" against each other. Says a Munich-based Kremlinologist: "The Soviet Union is taking on the role of a world gendarme and is using its advantage wherever a vacuum is created by the withdrawal of the U.S." That interpretation is supported by the vigorous pace of the Soviet arms buildup (see following story). Brezhnev's speech does not spell the end of détente. But the unintended moral of his remarks may be that a balanced U.S.-Soviet relationship requires a strong America, ready to defend its interests...
...almost totally ignored one impressive area of advancement: military strength. Whenever it has come to a choice between swords and plowshares, Moscow has seldom hesitated. Swords it has been. Neither bad harvests, shortages of consumer goods nor the spirit of detente with the West has braked the Soviet military buildup. In the past decade, Moscow has so expanded its forces that most defense analysts around the world agree that the U.S. is in danger of losing its strategic edge. Items...
Western experts offer several theories for the massive Soviet buildup: 1) to counter potential trouble along the 4,500-mile border with Russia's Marxist archenemy, China; 2) to maintain hegemony over Eastern Europe; 3) to overcome an "inferiority complex" vis-à-vis the U.S. that was aggravated when Moscow had to back down during the 1962 Cuban missile crisis; 4) to provide additional arms for its adventurous clients abroad...
...Soviet press, as usual, has given the congress an extraordinary advance buildup. According to newspapers, radio and television reports, the entire nation is engaged in an orgy of self-congratulations for past achievements and eagerly waiting to learn about future goals to be elaborated at the congress. The official news agency Tass reported that "virtually the entire adult population of the Soviet Union" was discussing the 21,000-word five-year plan for 1976-80, which was published in December and will be the subject of most of the major addresses. The plan is officially described as "a new, important...