Word: counters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Weinberger skirted the question of how much is enough and offered no suggestions about the best way to deploy U.S. forces to counter Soviet military might. He failed to address questions that are being asked by military experts, such as whether the U.S. really needs to float a 600-ship Navy or whether it should concentrate more on building up its ground forces against a power that is essentially landlocked...
Last spring, the club attempted to counter a groundswell of anti-apartheid activism by holding a private reception for a representative of the Pretoria government...
Star Wars, arms control, the military budget. Name the subject and the Pentagon's response is to stress its responsibility to counter actual and potential Soviet threats. Over coffee with editors of TIME last week, Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger expounded on that view in detail. Excerpts...
...sabotaging Middle East peace efforts. Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, who had returned to Cairo only the previous day after what he had regarded as a successful trip to Washington, denounced the raid as a "horrible criminal operation" that posed "a major blow to peace efforts." Argued Mubarak: "If we counter terror with terror, we are going to have an endless chain of terrorist operations." Mubarak's prediction appeared to have been borne out by the news from Beirut that an Islamic fundamentalist group had announced that it intended to "execute" an American hostage, U.S. Embassy Political Officer William Buckley...
...also moments during the symposium's polylogue when frictional energies generated by deeply-personal differences erupted in unatt ractive scenes of hostility. These were the sort of hairpulling impulses, for example, which led one woman to speculate on Millet's promiscuous habits during youth, and Millet in turn to counter with the charge that her accuser probably beats her own kids--over the issue of child abuse. Friday night's free-for-all with "bawdy Kate", the author of the ground-breaking 1968 manifesto Sexual Politics and a leading anticensorship advocate, provoked strong teactions from the crowded audience. Moderator Susan...