Word: disavower
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...strike, which would leave from 4 million to 30 million dead, as a "limited" action requiring a "limited" response. In fact, Brezhnev has repeatedly warned that any use of nuclear weapons by the U.S. would lead to a no-holds-barred fight to the finish. The Soviets publicly disavow a first-strike option and chastise the U.S. for having one, but there is little doubt that their righteous-sounding doctrine would count for nothing in a crisis...
Haldeman has written that Nixon's motive was to protect himself against associates who might seek to disavow discussions in which they had participated. It was a high price to pay for insurance. Anyone familiar with Nixon's way of talking could have no doubt he was sitting on a time bomb. What could anyone uninitiated make objectively of the collection of reflections and interjections, the strange indiscretions mixed with high-minded pronouncements, the observations hardly germane to the issue of the moment but reflecting the prejudices of Nixon's youth, all choreographed by the only person...
...embarrassed Defense Secretary Caspar W. Weinberger '38 insists, that NATO plans no longer call for a demonstration explosion. But even if it's only a fantasy of our nation's chief foreign policy administrator (and one should notice that the White House did not disavow his statement), that is scary enough. For Haig's scenario demonstrates the ultimate idiocy of any nuclear deterrent: what happens when your bluff is finally called...
...accepted into the Socialist Cabinet, the Communists not only had to pledge themselves to support Mitterrand's program and pace, but they had to disavow a number of their basic foreign policy positions. Key quotes from the agreement with the Socialists...
...Tarver was quickly overruled by a large majority of the 1982 executive board, which decided instead to disavow all responsibility for the Adams House article...