Word: depends
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...proposals on nuclear-arms reduction, and for the stationing of U.S. intermediate-range nuclear missiles on German soil next year if no agreement can be reached with the Soviets on arms reduction. The German and American leaders joined in a communiqué asserting that new approaches to the Kremlin depend on "Soviet conduct," especially in Afghanistan, "an acid test of Soviet readiness . . . to exercise restraint." Kohl said later of himself and Reagan: "We are on the same wave length...
Therein lies the irony of the Brezhnev legacy: all of the Soviet Union's gigantic military might has not proved sufficient to convince its leaders that they can depend on enjoying either domestic tranquillity or genuine security along the country's borders, even those it shares with Communist neighbors. On the contrary, insofar as the military sector has drained off resources from the civilian economy, the U.S.S.R.'s war machine has weakened the country. According to some reports, a number of party officials and theoreticians have even begun asking whether, as a result, their country ought to shift its concept...
...behavior, the U.S. has yet to figure out how to use it. One school says: Trade with the Soviets a lot-get them to drink our soda pop, wear our blue jeans, buy our ball bearings and computers and grain-and they'll become more like us and depend more on us. That view is held by some diehard advocates of détente and prominent American businessmen, such as Armand Hammer of Occidental Petroleum and Donald Kendall of Pepsico. The other school says: Don't trade with them at all, blockade them, force them to face...
...philosophy of the pipeline is perhaps just as important as its tangible effects. If the Soviets depend on us and we on them, the prospect of war becomes more remote. So the pipeline, by enhancing mutual dependence, makes the possibility of mutual annihilation a little less likely and the prospect of mutual economic benefit much more realistic...
...worst fears of the P.L.O. have come true. Palestinian refugees cannot depend on the ill-equipped and ill-trained Lebanese army for protection. In the aftermath of the P.L.O.'s departure from Beirut, the world has a moral obligation to protect the Palestinians who still remain there...