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...only modern, democratic nation in the Middle East,” a nuclear exchange in such a delicate region cannot possibly be a helpful step—neither is a unmet nuclear provocation, but we must remember that there are many eager for a casus belli against Jews half as convincing as that they employed nuclear weapons against Muslims and Arabs...
Intellectual Russians, among the few citizens who oppose the war, see it as the ominous sign of an authoritarian temperament prepared to enforce "order" at the expense of "law." Some even charge him with completely inhumane cynicism, allegedly plotting the bombings that provided the outraged casus belli. No one so far has been able to prove...
...trade bill, which provided an arsenal of retaliatory weapons; and adoption of the E.C.'s plan to create a single market by 1992, which Washington fears will entrench a Fortress Europe behind a Siegfried Line of trade barriers. Alleged European discrimination against American telecommunications equipment is the latest U.S. casus belli; the E.C., for its part, accuses the U.S. of playing "war games" with farm legislation in the current major round of international trade negotiations, the so-called Uruguay Round, which culminates in December...
...Soviet Union, Poland is a casus belli, a question on which she would go to war with the Western alliance. It has always been my belief that the U.S. can influence Soviet behavior toward Poland, but it cannot break the political and strategic connection between these two unequal neighbors without taking up arms. For the moment, that is the melancholy reality. Almost surely, it will not obtain over the long course. Where the indomitable spirit of a nation is involved, there is always the potential for evolution and for explosive change. As President Reagan came to office, nobody knew whether...
...trip started, it appeared certain Israel would invade Lebanon in a matter of hours, days or weeks. On June 3, the casus belli the Israelis had been waiting for materialized. In London, Arab terrorists shot and grievously wounded Shlomo Argov, the Israeli Ambassador to Britain. Israel bombed a P.L.O. ammunition dump in Beirut, and the P.L.O. struck back against northern Israel. On June 5, the Israeli Cabinet approved a large-scale invasion of Lebanon. Begin informed us that the objective was to drive the P.L.O. back 40 km from the Israeli border...