Word: buildups
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...those voices, the President turned a resolutely deaf ear. He headlined one section of his message NO TIME TO RETREAT. His 1981 accomplishments in slashing taxes and civilian spending while starting a huge military buildup, Reagan boasted, "far exceed anything the skeptics and critics ever dreamed possible just one year ago." The President added: "Our task is to persevere, to stay the course . . . to weather the temporary dislocations and pressures that must inevitably accompany the restoration of national economic, fiscal and military health...
...plans constitute what is almost a do-everything-at-once policy. Reagan argues that "critical investments" are needed in a long list of missiles, bombers, cargo planes, ships, tanks and funds for training and readiness in order to make up for years of neglect and counter a Soviet military buildup...
During the meeting, Haig complained to Gromyko about the continuing Soviet buildup in Afghanistan, and about Cuban involvement in Central America and southern Africa. The U.S. wants a Cuban withdrawal from Angola as part of a general settlement on Namibia (South West Africa). This subject, according to the Secretary of State, "occupied an extensive portion of our exchanges." In one important area, U.S. and Soviet interests seemed to coincide: continuing the month-old Geneva talks on intermediate-range theater nuclear weapons. But overall, said Haig, his discussions with Gromyko were "very sober." Gromyko, in turn, blamed the U.S. for blocking...
...been produced on Madison Avenue. Instead it came from Moscow's stolid Military Publishing House. Whence the Threat to Peace is the Soviet Union's rejoinder to the Reagan Administration's slick 99-page analysis, released last September, of Moscow's strategic and conventional arms buildup. Many of the claims made in the Soviet booklet are false, but the production represents a quantum leap in Moscow's mastery of military propaganda...
...buildup to Ronald Reagan's State of the Union address has been a kind of will-he or won't-he suspense serial that has been running for almost two months. But when he steps before a joint session of Congress and the TV cameras next week, the President will finally provide the answer: yes, he will ask for higher taxes, perhaps $40 billion to $60 billion over the next two fiscal years. If enacted-a very large if-they could extract more money from everyone who buys a beer or a pack of cigarettes or drives...