Word: counterweights
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...exception remained respectful. The majority did so because they had been drawn into the orbit of our design. Almost all thought that they were better off with the international system as it existed than with any alternative that they could imagine. The Soviets wanted to preserve detente as a counterweight to China; the Chinese needed us as a counterweight to the Soviets; the industrial democracies harassed us when it was safe but relied on us for security and progress; the nations of the Middle East had no alternative to the peace process under our aegis. We had built better than...
...What we are witnessing is the beginning of the failure of the Camp David agreement with the fall of one of its symbols." A number of other Arab governments were outwardly unsympathetic but inwardly troubled. The Saudis broke with Sadat over Camp David but still saw him as a counterweight to the regimes in Syria and Iraq, with whom they are united only by their opposition to Israel. Both Syria's President Hafez Assad and Jordan's King Hussein are vulnerable to the kind of Muslim fanaticism that brought down Iran and troubles Egypt. As one Western diplomat said...
...heightened U.S. perceptions of Egypt's next-door neighbor as an outlaw state and an increasingly bothersome trouble spot. Said a U.S. State Department official: "Libya is beginning to rival the Persian Gulf as the focus of strategic concern in the region. Now that Egypt, the only certain counterweight to Libya, is under a cloud, that concern can only increase...
...leader who had the imagination and courage to make peace with Israel. Beyond that, he had transformed Egypt, the most populous Arab nation, from a Soviet client to a steadfast U.S. friend. Under Sadat, Egypt played many pro-American roles besides rapprochement with Israel: it was a buffer and counterweight to the pro-Soviet and pro-terrorist Libyan regime of Muammar Gaddafi to the west; guardian of the Sudan to the south; defender of the Suez Canal; indispensable base and staging area for any U.S. forces that might have to be rushed to the Middle East to protect the Persian...
...analysts believed that the statement was aimed less at disarmament than at buttressing public opposition to the U.S. missiles in Western Europe. The West German government rejected the proposal out of hand. "The West cannot accept a status quo that gives permanence to a Soviet advantage, with no NATO counterweight," said an official Bonn statement. "The policy must remain one of parity...