Word: deterred
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...greater influence in the Middle East, its short-term strategy remains murky. The Soviets may urge Syria to keep its forces in Lebanon, thus depriving the Reagan Administration of a diplomatic victory and keeping tensions in the area high. Moscow may also be betting that its buildup will deter the Israelis from attacking Syrian troops in the Bekaa Valley...
Will the exposure of the phony Hitler diaries and other forgeries of Nazi mementos deter buyers? Hamilton thinks not. "Evil seems sexy," he observes. The world's estimated 50,000 collectors of Naziana, he says, find "the monstrosity and evil of Nazism to be strangely exciting...
...socialists as being irresponsible loons abound. These misconceptions are a real obstacle to building a socialist movement. The problem with a Spartacists is that they confirm practically every misconception about Socialism there could be. They are totalitarians, and they are irresponsible loons. I hope that their lunacy does not deter people from finding out about the genuine Left on this campus. Tom Canel...
...repeatedly declaring that their INF weapons are "national" forces rather than "NATO" forces, the British and French governments have declared that their nuclear weapons do not provide Bonn with a nuclear guarantee to deter Soviet nuclear and conventional threats against West Germany. Only the United States has been willing to make a nuclear guarantee to Bonn...
President Reagan quickly reaffirmed his intention to stand by U.S. commitments in the region and, more immediately, to secure the withdrawal of foreign forces from Lebanon. "This criminal attack will not deter us," said Reagan. "We will do what we know to be right." Lebanese President Amin Gemayel, who visited the still smoldering embassy two hours after the attack, echoed that resolve. Said he: "Those responsible for this crime have united in death innocent Lebanese and Americans and strengthened the determination of our two countries to continue to work together." As if to send a signal to the bombers...