Word: buildups
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Crimson: Do you think that the military buildup in Grenada was real...
...occupy the island and it's real. There were only 600 Cuban construction workers on the island, but they seemed to have orders to flight to the death, which is not how construction workers usually operate. So yes, I'd say it was quite a serious Cuban military buildup-serious in the context of the eastern Caribbean. We have to remember that to destabilize a microstate like Dominica or a larger one like Jamaica, you don't need fleets of ships or squadrons of aircraft. All you need is small arms, ammunition, machine guns. That's what they have...
...Stoddard, president of ABC Motion Pictures and the initiator of the project. "The movie simply says that nuclear war is horrible. That is all it says. That is a very safe statement." Adds the film's director, Nicholas Meyer: "The Day After does not advocate disarmament, build-down, buildup, freeze. I didn't want to alienate any viewers. The movie is like a giant public service announcement, like Smokey the Bear...
...That play had everything--a good buildup from our defense, an excellent pass into Princeton's box and fine finishing by Leo," explained Shattuck...
...equipped with FROG-7s and the older Scud missiles, along with batteries of SA-5 surface-to-air weapons manned by Soviet military officers. Since the Syrians seem extremely reluctant to risk a direct attack against Israel, the SS-21 deployment is viewed as a political response to the buildup of U.S. naval power along the Lebanese coast. Observed President Reagan during his weekly radio talk last Saturday: "We have to wonder aloud about Syrian protestations of their peaceful intentions...