Word: buildups
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...region, but he doesn't seem ready to make the concessions necessary to stop the air strikes the West is threatening to launch -- perhaps as early as next week. "He still thinks this is all talk," says TIME Central Europe bureau chief Massimo Calabresi. "He believes the current buildup is no different from the warnings in June and in March...
...George Bush, during the U.S. buildup in the gulf b) Bill Clinton, two weeks...
Terrorists know how to read weakness. So does Saddam Hussein. Six months ago, when Saddam blatantly violated the arms-inspection regimen he had agreed to after the Gulf War, Clinton let Kofi Annan broker a paper deal and called off the U.S. military buildup...
Perhaps. But Bundy, who oversaw Asia policy at State during the Vietnam buildup, fails to wrestle with the sad irony that has dogged his career. It was forthright, honorable, well-bred folks--the best and the brightest, such as William Bundy and his brother McGeorge--who unintentionally got us into Vietnam. It was secretive, manipulative folks--such as Nixon and Kissinger...
Between 1949 and 1956, Arab states drew Israel into a cycle of guerrilla attacks and retaliatory raids. In 1956 Ben-Gurion, aware of an Egyptian military buildup, escalated the conflict by storming the Sinai peninsula. The operation was coordinated with a French-British assault on Egypt. To Arabs, this was further proof of Israel as a toll of imperialism. To Israelis, this was Ben-Gurion's way of securing 11 relatively peaceful years...