Word: destroyed
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Kutakov did recognize the necessity of regular inspection once total disarmament is adopted by the world's major powers. He said, however, that this was a problem to be faced only when a worldwide agreement had been signed to destroy all nuclear stockpiles and all means of production of these weapons...
...Peking leadership into the international order, instead of their trying to destroy it according to their revolutionary vision, is primarily a psychological problem. Therapy for Peking's present almost paranoid state of mind must follow the usual lines of therapy: it must lead the rulers of China gradually into different channels of experience until by degrees they reshape their picture of the world and their place in it. The remolding of Chairman Mao, the greatest remolder of others in history, is not something I would advocate as feasible. But I think it is high time
...plagued by headaches that would have strained the patience of Penelope. It took two years, for example, to assemble the site, and then the ground turned out to be full of archaeological treasures, whose salvage slowed construction. "In Greece," says General Manager Paul Lugagne Delpon, "you can't destroy a church, even if it's already destroyed." Tricky renegotiations over the price of electricity with three successive governments are only now nearing conclusion, with the company likely to wind up paying as much as $1,500,000 a year more for its power than it had originally bargained...
Break in the Chain. Japanese strategy was to 1) destroy the rest of the Pacific fleet that had miraculously been on patrol when the dive bombers struck Pearl Harbor, and 2) build such strong defenses on its newly won island bases that no new U.S. force, no matter how strong, could possibly break through to disturb the inner empire. The island of Midway, 1.136 miles northwest of Pearl Harbor, was to be the final link in this defense chain. At the end of May 1942, some 200 ships, the bulk of the Imperial Navy, converged for an invasion of Midway...
...lived union with Syria. Warming to his subject, Nasser accused Saudi Arabia's King Feisal of financing a plot against him last summer, and of trying to form a conservative, anti-Nasser "Islamic alliance" with Iran's Mohammed Reza Shah Pahlevi. "Their object," Nasser steamed, "is to destroy Arab nationalism and unity." And who are the real architects behind the alliance? "Obviously," Nasser answered, "Washington and London." With that, Nasser all but tore up the six-month-old Egyptian-Saudi truce on Yemen, declaring that he would not withdraw his 70,000 troops, as promised, until an "acceptable...