Word: destroyed
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...fact, made the U.S. more vulnerable to limited, "brushfire" actions since the threat of a nuclear riposte has been all but removed. Kissinger has also deplored the notion that the U.S. should seek to establish overwhelming military superiority over the Soviet Union on the grounds that this would destroy the balance of power that is needed in a nuclear world. In A World Restored (also 1957), on Metternich and post-Napoleonic Europe, Kissinger wrote, "The desire of one power for absolute security means absolute insecurity for all the others...
...Also, Moscow may well view the fedayeen as a dangerous and uncontrollable factor in the Middle East equation. While the Soviets may or may not want a genuine peace in the area, they clearly do not want a new war now-and another likely humiliating Arab defeat that could destroy their influence in the region...
Kang then asks bitterly: Why was the department-store building burned down? Because it was completely ransacked and looted, and the looters burned it to destroy evidence against themselves...
Panaghoulis himself was of little help to the defense. He boasted of his plan to destroy Premier George Papadopoulos' car, and he proudly pleaded guilty to the charges of desertion and sedition -the two counts bearing a possible death sentence. "Condemn me to death," he challenged the court. "For me, the best swan song is the death rattle before the firing squad of a tyranny...
...court agreed with Shalit, it would in fact rule that culture rather than religion is at the core of Israel's Jewishness. While many Israelis accept Shalit's arguments, a formal cleavage between religion and state would doubtless destroy the coalition of secular and Orthodox Jews that has governed Israel since 1948. When the Cabinet of former Premier David Ben-Gurion attempted to accept Jews simply by their own affirmation in 1958, the resulting controversy nearly destroyed his government. Already one of the leaders of Israel's National Religious Party has warned that any decision...