Word: dangerously
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Amman, Jordan's capital, I discovered that the greatest single danger was not the risk of an Israeli bullet or the stealthy trips I took with the commandos along the Jordan Valley. It was the risk of spending all my time in a hotel room waiting for telephone calls that might never come, or under street lights at secret rendezvous points. For appointments that might never be kept. For the big brains of the fedayeen are not down by the riverside, but in and around Amman. To find them is tricky and tedious. Because of their inbred sense...
Meanwhile, the Soviet Union, more influential in the Arab world than ever be cause of its arms shipments, has staked its own claim to the use of the Mediterranean for its expanding navy, sharply increasing the danger of a direct U.S.-Russian confrontation on the high seas should a new Middle East war break...
...Harkabi, a former chief of Israeli intelligence, warns that "subversion may become a feature of our lives for a length of time that no one can foresee. It might become like the toll of traffic accidents modern societies have to pay." Over the long run, there is perhaps a danger that the fedayeen campaign may strike severe blows at Israeli democracy, as ever more repressive measures are required to hold down terrorism...
...with Moscow. Czechoslovakia knocked several key spans out of the bridge-building efforts to the Soviet Union. Nixon has indicated that he is wary of sitting down with the Russians with that episode so fresh in memory. But unless he gets down to serious talks on arms control, the danger exists that the two nations will embark on a race to build anti-ballistic-missile systems that will siphon off tens of billions of dollars from urgently needed domestic programs in both countries. Moreover, Nixon insisted during the campaign that the U.S. faces a "security gap" and must not permit...
Sacrificing Sovereignty. "The No. 1 theme for 1969 must be monetary reform," says West Germany's Economics Minister, Karl Schiller. "As long as every nation pursues a different economic policy, there will be ever recurring speculations and danger of an explosion of the monetary system...