Word: disarmed
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Nakasone attempted to disarm his critics by extending a few small olive branches. The Prime Minister said he had ordered the Finance Minister and the Bank of Japan to continue lowering interest rates to boost the Japanese economy and enable firms and consumers to buy more foreign products. The disclosure dovetailed neatly with congressional testimony last week by Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker, who said the U.S. central bank was moving to push American interest rates higher. At week's end major U.S. banks raised their prime rate from 7 3/4% to 8%. Taken together, the U.S. and Japanese actions...
...physicists' report casts into doubt that decades of research and untold billions of dollars will make SDI what the most rabid in the Administration want it to be: a mechanism to disarm any who oppose the unchecked extension of this country's interests. But decades and billions might see some part of that demented fantasy realized. What we must do is scuttle SDI together with the weapons it is designed to deter. And if others refuse to lay aside their arms together with us, then...
...great hope of Corazon Aquino's ascension to power was that the Communist insurgents might heed her plea to disarm and join in the rebuilding of Philippine society. That hope got a lift when the Communist New People's Army agreed last December to a 60-day cease-fire, a first for the 18-year-old rebel insurgency. But the truce broke down last month amid bitter charges and countercharges. The Ministry of Defense estimates that at least 350 people have died since the fighting resumed. The violence often plays out in a lethal tit for tat. Last week, after...
...cease-fire is not an end in itself; it sets up conditions for something bigger, an armistice, a peaceful settlement," said the Miami resident. "The Sandinistas see cease-fire as an end in itself, to disarm their opponents and get the United States...
Apparently wounded by the charges, the general has decided to try to disarm his critics. And what better way to do that than to have the Panama legislature pass a new law aimed at -- what else? -- drug trafficking? Last week the national assembly did just that, requiring Panama's banks for the first time to provide information about the financial dealings of suspected narcotics kingpins and permitting previously sacrosanct numbered bank accounts to be frozen. The new law also speeds the extradition of foreigners suspected of drug offenses. Panama's banks, like those of Switzerland, have long been a haven...