Word: deterent
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Arriving in Washington, Rabin maintained that "only a strong Israel, which has the capacity to deter aggression and to defend herself successfully by her own strength, has a chance of winning peace." In Jerusalem, those words were interpreted as a thinly disguised warning that Israel, if it felt it was losing the ability to defend itself, might once again decide on a pre-emptive war. But in his conversations with Ford and Kissinger, which White House officials described as "reasonably successful," Rabin laid out some of his government's thoughts about making progress toward peace...
...President may well be underestimating the public. When all 1,253 pages of the original White House transcripts were released in April, many Administration supporters hoped that the formidable mass of evidence would deter many people from inspecting it closely. But it turned out differently, and it probably will again...
Many big cities are now making special efforts to deter rapists and to help their victims. The Los Angeles police department helped produce a widely distributed film, Lady Beware, that shows where rapists may lurk and teaches that women in danger should scream. In Washington, D.C., the police department has put out pamphlets for rape victims urging them to bring sex offenders to court. In New York City, St. Louis, Albuquerque and Chicago, special police rape squads brief victims on what to expect during medical examinations and how to file charges...
...several dangerous encounters, including a puffadder handling exhibition. So far he has demonstrated his cool by dangling at the end of a rope over the face of a sheer, 250-ft. cliff to inspect a vulture's nest. Then, wearing a bracelet of elephant's hair to deter a tusker's charge, he stepped out to meet the warriors in a Masai village. Recognizing Bobby right away as a brother, the ocher-smeared men shared a gourd of ox blood and milk with him. But he may have to do something about his hair. "The Masai...
...Deter. On Oct. 24 at 9:25 p.m., while still trying to keep the Israelis in line, Kissinger received a phone call from Dobrynin, relaying the now-famous Brezhnev message. It warned that if the big powers could not act jointly, "we should be faced with the necessity urgently to consider the question of taking appropriate steps unilaterally." The Kalbs relate that Kissinger called the President and told him that the "U.S. might have to alert its military forces as one way to deter any unilateral Soviet move. The President concurred...