Word: dangerous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Dallas, at the end of a busy week, Reagan received a tumultuous reception from some 15,000 Protestant ministers and lay leaders. The candidate promised "a foreign policy which understands the danger we face from governments and ideologies that are at war with the very ideas of religion and freedom...
...reassuring sign was the manifest desire on both sides to avoid a violent confrontation. Gierek well knows the danger of using force. In 1970, his predecessor used force against the rioting Gdansk workers. Dozens died in the clashes, and Gomulka was finally forced out. Confronted with similar food-price riots in 1976, Gierek wisely backed down on prices rather than resort to massive force. So far, there is no indication that he intends to reverse that policy...
...danger for wider conflict lies in the tragic reality that Lebanon-in the best of times an uneasy pastiche of disparate religious and political groups-is a cockpit of regional, not just local, antagonisms. The key rival forces...
...landslide Reagan victory might even cost them control of the House they have held since 1954. Democratic control of the Senate is also threatened; a shift of nine seats would hand over power to the Republicans for the first time since '54. Enough Democratic seats are in real danger to make that a distinct possibility...
...publicly accused the Prime Minister of acting "flippantly and in an offhanded fashion" in his managing of the Defense portfolio. Every mother in Israel with a son in the army may ask her self some concerned questions, Sharon added. An angry Begin reportedly responded that the minister was "a danger to democracy." At a quarrelsome Sunday Cabinet meeting two weeks ago, other ministers eventually forced Sharon to apologize to his boss. Sharon has said that he will not resign his own post, which gives him primary authority over the establishment of Israeli settlements in the occupied territories, unless Begin makes...