Word: dangerous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...nuclear issue: The danger here again is that Democratic rhetoric could permit Reagan to preempt the center. If the Democratic nominee makes a nuclear freeze the centerpiece of his candidacy--as Sen. Alan Cranston (D-Calif.) has begun to do and as much of the Democratic left is likely to press for--he risks having his chief issue defused by a Reagan initiative. The 1972 analogy is enlightening: George McGovern, the Democrats' "peace" candidate, found his thunder stolen by Richard Nixon's late-October announcement that "Peace is at hand...
...question of MATEP's carcinogenic danger is the last question to be resolved be are the plant can fully operate. Delays have already raised the cost of MATEP to $260 million, five times original estimates...
...more than a decade, American military planners and political leaders have worried about the loss of superiority by the U.S., the achievement of parity by the Soviet Union, and the danger that unless the U.S. improves its defenses, the Soviets will pull ahead in the future. There were analysts in the back rooms of the Carter Pentagon and members of the National Security Council staff who feared that the future had already arrived...
...other hand, Congress faces a dilemma too. Suspicious of the Administration as many of its members are, they are also aware of the danger of seeming to take the side of the angrily anti-American Nicaraguan government. Says one congressional staffer: "No member of Congress wants to be looked on as soft on Commies. The Administration has been playing that card on all fronts, and on this issue it's having a powerful impact...
...figure that one agent can recruit ten collaborators. The real danger lies in the tentacular nature of this espionage network." At the center of the network in France is the Soviet embassy, a neo-Stalinist white marble bunker located near the Bois de Boulogne. The KGB also operates out of the ambassador's downtown residence, the trade mission, the consulate, Aeroflot offices, the TASS news agency and through Soviet delegations to international organizations like UNESCO...