Word: buildups
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...trim in the increase in military spending over the next three years, and a mere $2 billion cut for fiscal 1982. He also ruled out deferring the tax reductions enacted in July. In rejecting these courses, Reagan could plead consistency. He has been adamant in calling for a military buildup to counter the Soviet threat. In his speech he described national security as "Government's first responsibility." He had also campaigned on a pledge to lower taxes and could hardly back away from the reductions so recently won in a bitter battle with Congress...
...drastic, series of budget cuts, White House aides were well aware that the President for the first time was facing a credibility gap. To a large extent, Reagan had opened it himself by delivering on his campaign promises to slash taxes deeply, while starting a huge military buildup. Those astounding successes have raised grave doubts that Reagan can also redeem his equally important pledge to balance the federal budget by fiscal...
...tour d'horizon, Haig is expected to recite the Administration's now familiar bill of particulars about Soviet misbehavior. High on the list are the continuing arms buildup that threatens to upset the global military balance; Soviet support for terrorism through Libya, Cuba and the Palestine Liberation Organization; the continued occupation of Afghanistan; and Soviet intervention in such Third World nations as Angola, Ethiopia, South Yemen and Cambodia...
...realism, he means in most cases the maxims of America's Dwight Eisenhower: The Soviet Union is an aggressor power whose arms buildup we must match dollar for dollar or face extinction; people will only work if a monetary incentive exists; the realm of international relations must be dominated by conflict. By compassion, he means the axioms of the New Deal and the Vietnam generation: we must give some minimum amount of aid to those who do not compete effectively in our economy; we should avoid full-scale invasions of other nations, especially if we do so in support...
...Tsongas's mind, the answer is not only to court Third World nations--a fine idea--but also to spend as much of our gross national product on armaments as the Russians. We should, he says, "be very plain that we are prepared to meet any Soviet arms buildup; that we will respond to their aggressive instinct." Tsongas is in this case a moderate because he only supports nuclear parity, not superiority...