Word: buildups
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Still, for all of the buildup, the trip was the kind of presidential junket that has become increasingly familiar, with Ford and his hosts sticking to agenda and signing communiques that had been worked out well in advance. Since there seemed no pressing need for Ford to make the trip, many people thought that he should have stayed home and worked on the domestic problems of inflation, recession and a restive populace anxious for a demonstration of presidential leadership. But Ford's aides advised him to try to build public support for his presidency by moving out into world...
...Brown has been representative in its Ivy games," he said, bubbling with enthusiasm. "And Harvard is in contention for the Ivy title!" With that kind of buildup, I don't see how anyone would want to miss the game...
...tour for United Nations troops that separate Syrians and Israelis along the Golan Heights. "We'll need six months to get ready, unless Israel agrees to withdraw from the Golan Heights," said one Syrian diplomat cryptically. At week's end there were reports in Jerusalem about an increased military buildup along the Heights...
...larger questions about Iran's future that remain unanswered. What if the Shah were to die suddenly? Would Empress Farah, who has been designated regent for Crown Prince Reza, 14, be able to carry on the great projects now under way? Is the Shah's imposing military buildup a deterrent against war or a provocation? The Shah has not only filled the power vacuum that existed in the gulf after the British left but has shown an interest in establishing a strong naval presence in the Indian Ocean. Inevitably, such a move would increase the fears of Iran...
...IRAN'S MILITARY BUILDUP: We are not going to go nuclear. But discipline we will have, and knowledge we will have. We are working like mad training our people and enhancing their military knowledge. We are buying the best. If we make our forces mobile, then I think that with what we are planning now, in five years' time we will be among the top nonatomic armies of the world. Every day I find additional reasons to continue this policy because of the impotence of the United Nations. First of all, there is that U.N. veto. We also...