Word: buildups
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Even the mighty Soviets, propped up by the most massive military buildup in world history, dared not call Terminator Ron's bluff. Instead of invading countries or increasing support for revolutionary regimes, the U.S.S.R. has kept relatively quiet during the 1980s...
...including deployment. Colleagues say he favors an INF-only deal as a "firebreak" that will satisfy congressional yearning for arms control while leaving SDI intact. Paul Nitze, special adviser to Shultz and Reagan on arms control, is concerned that an INF-only deal could lead to a Soviet strategic buildup if there is no progress in START. The only way to break the deadlock in START, he feels, is an agreement spelling out which SDI experiments would be allowed under the Antiballistic Missile Treaty...
Iraq revived the tanker war on Aug. 29 after a 45-day lull that coincided with the U.S. military buildup and the Security Council resolution. Iraqi fighter jets swooped down over three Iranian oil facilities in widely separated locations. In the southern gulf, they set ablaze the tanker Alvand at Sirri Island as the ship was being loaded with Iranian oil. In the central gulf, they attacked an oil-loading facility on the island of Lavan. In the north they bombed and strafed the island of Farsi, used by Iranian Revolutionary Guards as a base for speedboat assaults against gulf...
These debilities are unlikely to disappear anytime soon. Much of North Korea's economic backwardness stems from the country's imposing military buildup aimed at the prosperous South. Pyongyang is estimated to spend about 25% of its GNP annually on arms -- one of the highest proportions in the world. One result: North Korea is so broke that even China and the Soviet Union, Kim's two strongest military allies, have delayed oil shipments to the country because Pyongyang has been slow to pay its bills. Western observers also feel that North Korea's plight will never improve so long...
Iranian officials responded to the U.S. military buildup with new warnings. Late in the week, Tehran Radio admitted that Iran was indeed sowing mines "to defend our coastline." Earlier, Hashemi Rafsanjani, the parliamentary speaker, had told an interviewer that Iran has factories "that can produce mines like seeds." Meanwhile, for the first time in the crisis the Iranian military went on the offensive. Two Iranian high-speed patrol boats fired on the Liberian-registered Osco Sierra, then boarded and searched the cargo ship...