Word: buildups
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...previous Administration was unable to do. What worries many people is that components of the proposed new strategic plan, such as air launch and ABMs, have been rejected earlier, and a major controversy might stall plans to modernize U.S. strategic forces. Meanwhile, Moscow drives on with its awesome arms buildup...
...Beirut raid had indeed shocked the world, as the Israelis were worriedly acknowledging. Opposition Leader Shimon Peres flatly called it "a mistake." On the other hand, the Israeli raids on Lebanon called attention to the enormous arms buildup of the P.L.O. over the past six months. The new arms, paid for mainly by Libya, Iraq and Saudi Arabia, include Soviet-made 122-mm howitzers and 130-mm field guns. These weapons have not yet turned the Palestinians into a serious threat to the Israeli armed forces, but they have made it difficult for the Israelis to knock out P.L.O. concentrations...
...French classical literature to a meeting with Spadolini, who said that Mitterrand had expressed "passionate interest in quattrocento Florence." Conveying an air of lofty civility, Mitterrand came across as surprisingly moderate; he particularly impressed U.S. officials with his advocacy of a strong Western military response to the Soviet arms buildup. Mitterrand was critical of the U.S. on only one major economic point: the high American interest rates. Said one European participant: "Mitterrand was very calm. He gave the impression of being a very kindly...
Publicly, Barth kept berating the West for its nuclear buildup and its cold war mentality. But privately, as the book reveals for the first time, he wrote to fellow-traveling Czechoslovak Theologian Josef Hromádka, saying: "My hair stands on end" at the concept of "freedom and peace" through "Nikita, Mao and even Fidel." Hromádka's association of the Christian Gospel with the political cause of Communism, he said, was a mirror image of the sin committed by Niebuhr and other anti-Communist "Western fathers...
...Wall Street moneymen, however, is not Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker's tight-money tactic, which they generally support, but the lack of an equally resolute stance on fiscal policy. Some bankers and analysts fear that the President's tax cut plans, plus his projected defense spending buildup, will more than offset the Administration's deep spending cuts elsewhere in the budget, and thus increase the need for federal borrowing. Interest-rate pessimists like investment bank Economists Henry Kaufman of Salomon Bros, and Albert Wojnilower of First Boston Corp., who have been nicknamed Dr. Doom...