Word: dominos
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Kriangsak came to Washington looking for some kind of U.S. support that might dissuade Hanoi's military strategists from viewing Thailand as ultimately just another domino. The Premier seemed to be satisfied by Carter's assurance that the U.S. was "deeply committed to the integrity and the freedom and the security of Thailand." As a token of that commitment, the President plans to ask Congress to approve transfer to Thai ownership of $11.3 million worth of U.S. ammunition stored in Thailand since the Viet Nam War. Carter Administration officials quietly promised Kriangsak that they would speed up delivery...
UPenn is a different story. The Quakers--better known in recent years for their team member who delighted crowds around the league (and on the Johnny Carson Show) with his domino show than for the quality of their swimming performances--will provide little competition...
Walker: I really hoped we had gotten away from the domino theory in the last decade since Vietnam. What we are witnessing in southeast Asia is a series of very nationalistic movements, the most recent one being the Vietnamese reunited since the American pull-out in 1973. Granted the present situation has some Soviet support, and is a very exacerbating one for the Chinese; I think the American-chinese rapprochement may very well serve to slow down Chinese reaction to it, although the Chinese are massing troops along the Soviet border. I think it's hard to predict what will...
...conditions that make for instability along the arc vary greatly from country to country, and it would be imprudent to apply the cold war domino theory to the area. "There may be a bunch of dominoes," says a Western diplomat, "but they're not leaning against each other, end on end." Nonetheless, it is also apparent that what happens next in Iran could have an important effect on the whole region. The international rivalry that Rudyard Kipling once described as "the great game" for control of the warm-weather ports and lucrative trade routes between Suez...
...these negotiations, and in others through next year (see box), a labor version of the domino theory will be in effect. If the oil workers agree to a moderate contract, the Teamsters may follow, and then other unions. But, says one Administration official, "if OCAW busts the guidelines, then we will lose the [Teamsters'] master freight agreement, and if we lose that we can forget about the whole guidelines program." At this stage, no one can tell which way the dominoes will fall...