Word: distract
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...NATO allies will push in Stockholm for improvements in the present system, which requires a nation to give notice of military maneuvers of 25,000 troops or more at least 21 days before they begin. The fate of such initiatives may depend on whether the Warsaw Pact nations distract the conference with propaganda blasts against the new NATO missiles or high-sounding but insubstantial "declaratory proposals" against aggression. In a press conference for Europeans last week, Shultz warned against expecting immediate improve ments in Soviet-American relations. "We are prepared for a thaw," he said, "but whether there...
...fact of the matter is that the President is playing a down limp game with words. He appeals to one's "understanding," to distract the listener from what's going on; the attempt may or may not be conscious, but the result is the same...
...Soviet news film, the marchers carried a banner demanding U.S. IMPERIALISTS, HANDS OFF GRENADA ISLAND! The banner was in English, which probably reduced its readership in Kabul but certainly suggested something else: the broadcast was intended not so much to persuade Soviet audiences of U.S. perfidy as to distract Western attention from the historic day when nearly 100,000 Soviet troops rolled into Afghanistan to prop up a faltering pro-Soviet regime...
...shaking demonstration by more than 1,000 protesters near Haneda Airport as the Reagans were about to arrive was a pale shadow of the mass snake-dancing "demos" the Japanese left used to stage in the 1960s and early '70s; this time, the marching leftists could not even distract nearby golfers and baseball players...
...contras admit they seek the overthrow of the Sandinistas, but the Reagan Administration still claims that the CIA aid is intended only to distract the Nicaraguans from aiding the Salvadoran insurgents. The amendment passed by the House last week provides $50 million strictly for such arms interdiction by "friendly" Central American countries...