Word: dangerous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...launch attacks against Israeli targets to show that Arafat's renunciation of terrorism does not apply to them. It may be cynical but it is not unthinkable to fear extremist Israelis might seek a similar escalation of violence to prevent a dialogue that they like no better. Another danger for Arafat is the one that has kept him on the move for more than two decades: the possibility of assassination by those who reject his views...
...perhaps the greater danger was that the U.S. would again find itself unable to seize the initiative or provide an imaginative response. Gorbachev's U.N. speech was the most resonant enunciation yet of his "new thinking" in foreign policy, which has the potential to produce the most dramatic historic shift since George Marshall and Harry Truman helped build the Western Alliance as a bulwark of democracy. But as the Soviets play the politics of da -- saying yes to issue after issue raised by the Reagan Administration -- the U.S. seems in peril of letting its wary "not yet" begin to sound...
...greater danger, however, is the possibility that a wary and grudging attitude could cause the U.S. to miss out on a historic turning point in world affairs. Those who sniff at Gorbachev's recent moves were proposing last year that many of these same steps -- on emigration, troop configurations, individual rights, loosening controls in Eastern Europe -- be used as litmus tests of Soviet intentions. With every Gorbachev move, the evidence mounts that he is seeking not just a breathing space but a fundamental change in the Soviet system...
...dispute: he blitzed NATO's military diplomacy. The Western alliance, burdened by time- consuming consultation between its members, labored for two years to stake out a negotiating position for the Conventional Security Talks between the East and West, expected to begin next spring in Vienna. "There's the danger that in one stroke Gorbachev can derail the alliance's arms-control planning," warned Abshire. Indeed, as the NATO ministers met in Brussels last week, they did not want to play Scrooge by shunning the Gorbachev Christmas present. However, they wanted far more substantial force reductions than he announced...
...Under the BU plan, a teacher in danger of dismissal is only entitled to a hearing held by the University--contrary to state law, which requires a two-thirds vote of the school committee as well," he said...