Word: defend
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...obliged by treaty to defend Japan, South Korea and Western Europe (and Western Europe, by NATO definition, includes Greece and Turkey) from armed attack. It has a clearly enunciated pledge to use force if necessary to keep oil flowing to the free world from the Middle East. This implies a determination to defend Saudi Arabia, Oman, Egypt, Jordan and Pakistan from threats external and internal. Six months of maneuvers and training exercises in Honduras, involving up to 5,000 troops at one time, underscore U.S. opposition to leftist revolution in Central America. The U.S. recently felt obliged to send AWACS...
...easy to see what might be done. Commitments could be lightened, but which friendly states should be told the U.S. might not defend them? Military forces could be built up further; the U.S. may even need the draft. But Reagan is having trouble getting his present defense-spending requests through Congress (he asked for a 14.2% increase over fiscal 1983). Perhaps the most comforting thought is that the Soviet Union, faced by a hostile China on one flank and ringed by potentially mutinous East European allies on another, has its own worries about how much military force it could safely...
Gulf was taking Pickens' maneuverings seriously. It reportedly set up a $4 billion credit line to defend its stock, possibly by buying it back. And the company called a special shareholders' meeting for Dec. 2 to consider, among other items, the way directors are elected...
...market share. But P&G hopes to better that next year when it replaces its current Citrus Hill formula with a patented concentrate produced by freezing the fresh juice rather than boiling it. A marketing battle is likely to ensue. Said a Tropicana spokesman: "We intend to aggressively defend every area where we're doing business...
...United States has three overriding military concerns-strategic defense of our own territory, participation in NATO's defense of Western Europe, and protection of world sea lanes. We are treaty bound to defend Europe, where more than a quarter of our army is based. Moreover, events in Europe have historically reached across the Atlantic sooner or later. It is impossible to imagine a severing of our defense commitment to NATO, although small alteration are always possible. Much of the rest, and most of the Air Force, is based in the U.S. The Navy patrols all the world's major bodies...