Word: disavows
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Nicaraguan support for insurgencies in neighboring countries." The problem lies with the ambiguity of the word "support." Clearly the Sandinistas will not agree to curtailing their moral support for any leftist group in Central America. And it hardly seems likely that the leaders in Managua will publicly disavow material support for insurgencies--support they have consistently claimed does not exist. In the world of international relations, where every word is carefully weighed this minor rhetorical point could undermine the U.S. plan...
...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...