Word: constantly
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...Proxy wars. Careful as they have been to avoid a military clash, the superpowers run a constant risk of being dragged into one by the action of allies or clients they cannot control. One example: if the incessant factional strife
...Bank. These stations would be manned by Israeli soldiers, who would be guaranteed free passage to and from the border. 2)Maintenance of open and adequate communications and transportation routes for Israeli tank forces throughout the West Bank. These roads would not be used for exercises, only kept in constant readiness for use in an emergency. 3)Maintenance of ammunition and supply dumps throughout the territory. The need for these logistical supports quickly becomes crucial in the type of lightning warfare used by modern forces, especially in the Mideast. 4)Some type of extradition process exercised between the Israeli government...
...maybe people simply want to know that other people are around. Not that one really doubts it, there being such constant frantic evidence that people are around. Only why does it feel so still sometimes? And why are we, in our lucky normality, able to know something of the desperation of the Jersey mother, standing by the river emptyhanded? The day opens and closes with the reassuring noises of the species, and we seem taken with the news that we are here. -By Roger Rosenblatt
Despite these dramatic alterations in the international arena, the ways in which nations interact with each other, the basic methods of intercourse, have remained surprisingly constant. As former Israeli foreign minister Abba Eban argues convincingly in his book The New Diplomacy, the only true novelty in international relations is the increase in number of nations involved...
...about. On Cambodia, there were constant explanations. Here was President Nixon pointing to maps and charts. Here was Henry Kissinger making the point that we were bombing not a neutral nation but an enemy-base area. The victims of The Day After were all Americans, most of them civilians, many of them women and children. As we watched them being engulfed in flames, we could identify with them and feel richly sorry for ourselves. It was harder to watch a film of Americans doing the killing, to hear...