Word: dangerous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Nations have in this century attempted to foster a "national character." Nazi Germany and Maoist China are two examples. But the price people have paid for such "public spiritedness" has always been authoritarianism. Will acknowledged that danger but argued that just because some countries had taken the route of authoritarianism, it did not mean all regimes necessarily would. But Will's objection notwithstanding, the fact remains that no democratic, capitalist system has ever been founded on the principles he espouses...
...West. The gulf is an area of U.S. interest and defending the gulf is in the interest of the U.S. The AWACS has no guns. It can't carry bombs. I'm astonished that Israel is raising hell against it. It's of no danger to Israel...
...exclusive circle of world leaders has been momentarily broken. Those 25 or 30 men and women who preside over the larger powers have at once been shattered by Anwar Sadat's death, reminded of their own perishability and united in a singular way by the danger in which they all walk. The specter of death attends them...
...Reality. The reality is that El Salvador lives under an unbearable, dictatorial oligarchy and that massacres occur there and that all this must be denounced. We believe that the prolongation of these outdated systems in Latin America is a danger for the whole world. Do we speak of Communism? That is how it is introduced! Communism is born out of misery, and if the West does not show more understanding, those people will take up arms and turn to others, that is the Soviet Union. We wind up driving into the adversary camp people who are not natural adversaries...
...what extent are you concerned by the trend toward neutralism in Europe? Is it a limited problem or a real danger...