Word: demand
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...embassies" between France and Iran last week resulted in a bitter cutoff of diplomatic relations between the two countries and a heightened confrontation that threatened even more serious hostilities. France broke off relations first, after rejecting an Iranian demand that it give up attempts to question a 34-year-old Iranian who had taken refuge in the Paris embassy about a series of terrorist attacks. Tehran quickly followed suit, and within hours Western news agencies in Beirut received warnings that two French hostages being held by pro-Iranian Islamic terrorists would be killed. The threats came from callers who claimed...
...interaction between two powerful nations but a holy struggle between two starkly opposed value systems. The phrase, first used in a speech by Bernard Baruch in 1947, implies that the relationship is, in essence, a war -- not just a rivalry between great powers but a struggle that would eventually demand the triumph of one world view over the other...
...expensive and not all that rewarding. Keeping Cuba afloat costs the Soviets more than $4 billion a year; the Afghanistan occupation requires the deployment of close to 120,000 troops; the military budget consumes, according to some estimates, about 14% of total government spending. Gorbachev's domestic objectives will demand a massive reallocation of resources. As he told Britain's Margaret Thatcher in March, "We need a lasting peace to concentrate on the development of our society and to proceed to improve the life of the Soviet people...
...country's black unions are sounding an increasingly militant note. "We demand the right to share the wealth we produce," declared Barayi. "We don't want all of it, only 50%. The rest we will take later." At week's end the National Union of Mineworkers was poised to strike the country's gold and coal mines, the backbone of the economy...
Once again, Reagan's proposed Strategic Defense Initiative may be playing a central role in the Kremlin's thinking. Gorbachev has a history of performing deft flip-flops on whether to demand SDI restrictions as a condition for other arms-control agreements. A year ago, he indicated that an INF deal could be cut separately. That led to October's Reykjavik summit. There the Soviets proposed a package deal, including acceptance of Reagan's zero option on INF in Europe along with deep cuts in strategic weapons and restrictions on SDI. The deal fell apart because Reagan felt Gorbachev...