Word: dangering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Capitol Hill, Carter's congressional allies were sounding a different refrain. The chilling-over of Moscow-Washington relations in recent weeks, they said, would make it very hard for the Administration to command the two-thirds Senate vote needed for ratification of a SALT II agreement. The danger was a real one. Observers in Washington noted with concern that further deferrals of a SALT agreement would unleash an uncontrollable new round of arms programs...
...Administration was fully aware of African criticism of the Western role in Zaïre, and of the danger that the Soviet Union and Cuba might respond to the creation of a pro-Western African force by trying to assemble a radical African military power capable of causing serious mischief in Rhodesia and other trouble spots. The Administration also realized that in underscoring its opposition to Soviet-Cuban adventurism in Africa, the U.S. must not appear to be embracing the policies of South Africa and Rhodesia, whose governments have quietly hoped that the recent troubles in Zaïre would...
...also faced once again with mass famine. In Ethiopia's Wollo and Tigre provinces, crops had been scourged by a deadly fungus known as ergot. The fungus, called St. Anthony's fire in medieval days, creates an unholy dilemma. Anyone who eats the infected grain risks the danger of a circulatory disorder that eventually blocks blood flow and causes gangrene. The alternative is starvation. FAO experts believe that the famine is potentially as crippling as the one that Ethiopia suffered in 1973, when an estimated 200,000 people died...
...worries me. Here we are, a democratic society, holding another society hostage." Uri Avneri, editor of the Tel Aviv weekly magazine Ha 'olam Hazeh, is even more outspoken. "The occupation is an unmitigated disaster for Israel. The fact that the Palestinians remain without their dignity poses a greater danger to Israeli security than any long-range benefit Israel could have from the military side of things...
...danger of losing Skylab remains real. Space agency contractors must get the bugs out of the shuttle in time and complete the supplemental rocket engine that it will carry to Skylab. Installed aboard the huge craft, the rocket could boost it to safety. Says one worried space engineer: "There just isn't any time to fool around if we're to save Skylab...