Word: commandeering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...February 1983, Burt had been confirmed in his new position as Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs, and he took command as the principal State Department official overseeing the Geneva talks. That meant waging a two-front battle: against Nitze's advocacy of greater concessions and Perle's championing of the zero option. It also meant accommodating pressure that was building up from across the Atlantic...
...attention to the interagency wrangling, but he worked hard on the packaging of the final position. He pored over numerous drafts for a speech, including one that he revised while returning to Washington from Texas aboard the specially adapted Boeing 747 that was equipped to serve as his airborne command center during a nuclear...
...justification for giving up the Pershing II. It involved deploying instead a shorter-range version of the missile called the Pershing IB. That weapon would have had the accuracy, mobility and other high-tech advantages of the Pershing II and could hit Warsaw Pact airfields, rail transshipment points and command centers. But because of its shorter range it would not be limited by the agreement...
Edward N. Luttwak, a senior fellow at the Georgetown University Center for Strategic and International Studies, argues that every President becomes fully sensitized to the awesome power at his command through the military budget process. Virtually all spending calculations, explains Luttwak, are based on a weapon's destructive effects: how many millions would be killed, cities destroyed, regions contaminated. There is no way a President could succumb to reflexive nuclear revenge, even if he is surrounded by old cronies who, after a couple of bourbons, suggest it is time to "nuke 'em." From the man who carries...
...chrysanthemum-lined streets, welcoming banners fluttered before them and wizened shopkeepers craned their necks to wave at perhaps the world's richest woman. On the last leg of an 18-day, three-nation swing through Africa and Asia, the Queen made it clear that royalty can still command loyalty...