Word: deterring
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...That has not stopped thousands of desperate Albanians from crossing into Greece since the last week of 1990. In early December, four fleeing Albanians were shot dead ( near the frontier by soldiers of the Stalinist regime in Tirana. Last week, by contrast, refugees walked into Greece with little to deter them except the cold and the mountains. Instead of opening fire, border guards merely shot curses at the fugitives. By week's end about 5,000 refugees streamed into the northwestern Greek province of Epirus, doubling the population of the border area. Most of the fugitives belonged to Albania...
Although U.S. officials believe Iraq does not pose an imminent nuclear threat, they do not necessarily dismiss the wisdom of a continuing technological embargo and even a military strike to deter Saddam's atomic program before it gets much further. They argue that the reckless Iraqi leader might use or threaten to use nuclear weapons if he ever obtains them. But an attack to prevent this, says an Administration official, would be a "preventative war, not a pre-emptive one. It doesn't explain why you go to war this month as opposed to six months from...
...main U.S. goal in the Middle East to protect the oil supply or to deter aggression...
Christensen tries not to let the occasional rejection deter him. "I can hear no, see no, in someone's face," he says. "I don't have to push to make it a yes. That's not my job." He says he learned an important lesson from his dying brother: "My responsibility was not to save him but to love him and give what I could. My responsibility is to love the children, to give joy and celebration, not to make them accept it. That's their choice." Fortunately for all concerned, most do accept the gentle medicine of Dr. Stubs...
...withdraw. "I am more determined than ever to see that this invading dictator gets out of Kuwait with no compromise of any kind whatsoever," he said. To ensure that Saddam perceives the military alliance ranged against him as "credible," and to achieve an offensive capability beyond the "defend and deter" mission described as Washington's objective to date, Defense Secretary Dick Cheney signaled that as many as 100,000 additional U.S. troops would soon join the 210,000 already in the gulf. At the same time, CIA Director William Webster said the Middle East would never be secure until Saddam...