Word: buildups
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...here," said Hughes Rudd, Sally's co-anchor on the CBS Morning News. Just five months after the network had hired her away from the Washington Post to make trouble for Barbara Walters of NBC's rival Today, Quinn quit. The victim of a premature publicity buildup and her own inexperience, Sally had also an unfortunate style: she picked over the news as if she could not decide which fork to use. She will join the New York Times's Washington bureau in March. Miss Quinn, 32, was cautious about plans to marry her former boss, Washington...
...northern command in Shenyang, which covers the vital industrial regions of Manchuria and the vulnerable northeast frontier with the Soviet Union. Li is considered one of the army's rising generals, and his posting to the sensitive Soviet border testified to continuing Chinese concern over the Russian troop buildup in the area. But there was speculation that his transfer north was also designed to loos en his grip on Peking and at the same tune dismantle the network of personal loyalties built up by Chen Hsi-lien, 60, the military commander of the northern region for more than...
...specialized products and skills. The Soviets have steadfastly refused to negotiate a permanent border with the People's Republic, and have fought several minor border wars in an effort to continue the steady encroachment on Chinese territory begun by the Tsars several centuries ago. Even now, the Soviet buildup in the Middle East seems directed neither at socialist revolution nor at the acquisition of oil (the Soviets have plenty) but at denying oil to the other imperial powers and at the establishment of military bases and naval access in the Mediterranean area...
Privately, some government officials concede that the Cabinet did not adequately assess the Arab buildup. In fact, the government vehemently denies the report (TIME, Oct. 22) that in the days before Yom Kippur the Premier and her Cabinet rejected a Dayan proposal to start mobilization in Israel. Insists a spokesman for Mrs. Meir: "Neither mobilization nor pre-emptive strike was discussed prior to the Arab attack. No Minister made such proposals...
...firm in their positions on the eastern bank of the Suez Canal, protected from Israeli planes by the umbrella of artillery and missiles. Occasionally they staged commando raids behind Israeli lines, including two on Sharm el Sheikh, at the mouth of the Gulf of Aqaba. By midweek the Egyptian buildup in the Sinai had reached more than 100,000 men and 1,000 tanks. They struck spasmodically at Israeli positions in an effort to ease the pressure on Syrian, Jordanian and Iraqi forces on the battlefronts of the Golan Heights...