Word: downplay
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Contingency scenarios for US military deployment tend to underestimates troop requirements, estimates of casualty rates, and the time and geographic scope of required engagement. Politico-military analysts downplay the potential for regionalization of armed conflict in the isthmus. In particular they underestimate the implications of the Nicaraguan and Cuban commitment to provide military support to Salvadorean guerilla forces in the event of continued escalation of US involvement. No serious consideration appears to have been given to global security implications of an escalated regional conflict involving US, Cuban, Nicaraguan, Venezuelan and other participants...
...government made point of banning all wreaths and eulogies at the graveside. West German military personnel were ordered not to wear uniforms at the funeral. Allied NATO soldiers were discouraged from attending in military dress. In its attempt to downplay Dönitz's death, however, the government inadvertently made an issue of it. The political far right, including West Germany's small but active neo-Nazi fringe, chimed in with praise for the late admiral. Kurt Reitsch, an old navy friend of Dönitz's who is arranging the funeral, criticized Bonn for overreacting. Said...
...been investigating complaints of segregation in the 47,000-student county school system for 14 months. But with the Carter Administration scheduled to leave office on Jan. 20, they naturally assumed that any new civil rights initiatives would be left for the new Government, which is expected to downplay the use of busing to achieve integration...
...selecting their new leadership, House Republicans were trying to downplay their traditional image as the party of reaction and obstruction. Thanking his colleagues for electing him, Michel said: "We've got to be affirmative, forward looking. The bottom line is enacting the Reagan program." He warned Democrats against trying to "gut" Reagan's proposals. If that happens, said he, "we will have confrontation...
...Thanksgiving mood testifies to an enduring-and endearing-trait in the American character: a willingness once an election is over to downplay old divisions and give a new leader a sporting chance to show what he can do. It is a trait for which to give abundant thanks...