Word: buildups
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Still, the Administration is not reconciled to cutting Pakistan off permanently. Islamabad is the main link to U.S.-supplied mujahedin guerrillas in Afghanistan and the contributor of 2,000 troops to the gulf buildup. Two weeks ago, State Department officials sounded out Congress on extending aid without certification until elections are held in Pakistan next week. Legislators refused to go along with a waiver...
...Congress is not solely -- or even primarily -- to blame. For a decade the Reagan and Bush administrations have been submitting fraudulent, free- lunch budgets that promised huge tax cuts, a social "safety net," a "kinder, gentler" nation, improved education, a war on drugs, the greatest military buildup in peacetime history and -- most fraudulent of all -- a balanced budget. Bush's OMB director, Richard Darman, who played a crucial role in negotiating the budget compromise that was at the center of last week's maelstrom, was himself guilty of preparing a budget that was a monument to Reaganite wishful thinking. Bush...
...from their allies and neighbors that they prove themselves democratic and peace loving while fulfilling the international obligations that come with the status of a major power -- obligations that include a continuing push for European integration and, in the short run at least, a major contribution to the multilateral buildup in the Persian Gulf. Germany does not seek the "leading role in Europe," Chancellor Helmut Kohl vowed last week, but its people will "live up to our responsibility in Europe and the world...
...growing increasingly restless. Nowadays the talk is mainly about when, not if, there will be war. House Armed Services Committee chairman Les Aspin said last week the Bush Administration appeared to be "looking more and more favorably on the war option." Come mid-November, when the allied military buildup in the gulf will be complete, the Administration will assess whether the economic sanctions are pushing Iraq toward capitulation. Judging from Baghdad's behavior last week, the answer may be no. For the first time, the bellicose ; state threatened to launch a first strike against Saudi Arabia and Israel should...
...after World War II, by U.S. containment efforts that made the cost of Soviet adventurism prohibitive, by the solidity of NATO, by the drive for human rights and by the example of U.S. -- and Western -- economic success. Even Soviet officials acknowledge the effect of American pressure, including the arms buildup...