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...role in the massacre. The move was an about-face by Begin, who had initially refused to consider such a probe. Instead, he had sought to limit the political damage by appointing Supreme Court Chief Justice Yitzhak Kahan, 69, as a special investigator but one without explicit authority to compel witnesses to testify or to demand documents. Begin's chosen investigator did not go along with the plan. Since two petitions demanding a full-scale judicial commission of inquiry had been filed with the Supreme Court, Kahan informed the government that he could not consider its appointment until...
Greenspan was afraid that domestic politics might eventually compel an economically struggling borrower to default on all its loans, encouraging other countries to follow suit. That, in turn, would confront Western finance officials with a cruel choice. On the one hand, the lenders could wipe the worthless loans off their books and invite a worldwide financial contraction because of dwindling monetary reserves. On the other hand, central banks could attempt to avoid such a massive depression by buying up the defaulted loans. That would keep the international financial system functioning, but it would also cause a wild new burst...
...Arab-Israeli war. The superpowers have got to head it off, just as we stopped the massacre in 1973. Our fleet is standing by in the Mediterranean. So is the American fleet. Both are moving in the same direction, toward Lebanon. Doesn't this situation compel us to consider what needs to be done to put an end to this conflict...
...days of an earlier showdown between the countries, the 1962 Cuban missile crisis. If the NATO allies did indeed station the new missiles on European soil next year, said the Soviet leader, "there would arise a real additional threat to our country and its allies." Warned Brezhnev: "This would compel us to take retaliatory steps that would put the other side, including the United States itself, its own territory, in an analogous position. This should not be forgotten...
...budget by some 5%. But even this relatively modest change ran up against the lingering inhibitions of Viet Nam, compounded by Watergate. Every new weapons system had to run a gauntlet of objections: it was unnecessary because we already had an "overkill" capability; it was dangerous because it would compel offsetting Soviet moves; it would jeopardize SALT negotiations; it would weaken us because it might preclude newer and even better weapons down the road. The attainable was being blocked by a quest for the ideal. The B70 bomber, the antiballistic missile, the Bl, the MX, the Trident II missile have...