Word: cannonism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fire captain brings out the water cannon, but there isn't enough pressure for it to be really effective. People get wet, one person gets flipped, and the skirmishes continue, so the police come out from behind the fence, and now what do you do? You can't rush by policemen, you just don't do that, and besides, would it be non-violent? Would everybody follow? So you retreat to a high spot and wait for the tide to come in while you hold some meetings...
Only a day before, sonic booms and cannon fire reverberated in the clear blue sky as Israeli and Syrian jets clashed over Lebanon. Flying U.S.-built F-15 fighters, Israeli pilots shot down four MiG-21s in a 90-sec. dogfight apparently provoked by the Syrians. The Israelis claimed that all their planes went unscathed. The dogfight underscored the fragility of the Lebanese ceasefire...
...world's chief reserve currency, and replace it with a collection of monies that will give more economic and geopolitical power to hard-currency nations, including West Germany and Japan. In an attempt to remove from the money markets some of the excess dollars that provide cannon fodder for speculators, the IMF would replace as much as $40 billion with its own bonds. Now there are some $225 billion in dollars in foreign central bank vaults and $500 billion more in private hands outside the U.S. For a generation the dollar's dominant currency role reflected U.S. global...
Many view Brzezinski as a loose cannon, overeager and self-promotional to a fault, but the fact is that Carter's foreign policy accomplishments are his single political strength. Brzezinski comfortably accepts a great deal of the credit. He is the principal architect of Carter's human rights policy, identifying the U.S. with developing forces of change around the world. His views on the MX missile prevailed. He was the Administration's key operator on Nicaragua and pushed his firm line for Anastasio Somoza's ouster...
...while embodying the spirit and idealism of Carter's Human Rights policy, he also became at times a loose cannon on deck, damaging not only his own image but that of the President who loyally kept him in office...