Word: efforts
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...adding to the "fears of some countries that they may come under Soviet or Cuban pressure." But he concluded that the issue is "certainly no reason for a return to the cold war ... The greatest danger to all the nations of the world is a breakdown of a common effort to preserve the peace, and the ultimate threat of a nuclear war." At the same time, Carter ordered a series of limited diplomatic and military moves that are designed to keep closer watch on Cuba and to deter the Soviets from further adventurism in the Caribbean and elsewhere...
...military moves that Carter pledged were not much more menacing than the brigade, a response that indeed fits the provocation. He promised to increase surveillance over Cuba, which he had cut back when he took office in an effort to prepare the way for normalizing relations with Fidel Castro. Carter said he would establish a Caribbean military headquarters in Key West, which a Pentagon official said would be a largely symbolic gesture intended to "show the flag 90 miles north of Cuba." Military maneuvers would be expanded in the Caribbean (including amphibious landings of Marines on the beaches...
...moderates, former Education Minister Shirley Williams, who lost her parliamentary seat last May, exhorted them to "stand up and start fighting for yourselves!" Though it was too late to beat the leftists at Brighton, the moderates have now established a so-called Committee for a Labor Victory in an effort to regain control of the party. Meanwhile, both sides of the mangled party will be fighting each other as well as the Tory government, which could only cheer Prime Minister Thatcher. As the conservative Daily Express wryly noted, "With enemies like that, who needs friends...
...keeping with the business-like mood of Deng's modernization effort, the 30th celebration was strikingly subdued. Gone were the lavish fireworks displays and parades of earlier anniversaries. Still, the New China News Agency had promised that Peking would be given "a new look, with many billboards freshly painted." As it turned out, this meant that some Mao quotations were painted over and replaced with road safety signs and exhortations to strive for modernization. Peking's 7.5 million population salvaged some holiday spirit from the capital's markets, which were specially stockpiled with 1 million chickens...
Botha's sweeping liberalization strategy is based on a cold-blooded assessment of his country's increasingly vulnerable security position. If Britain's effort to produce genuine majority rule in neighboring Zimbabwe Rhodesia succeeds, South Africa can expect to become the next target of resentful black Africans, who are determined to erase every vestige of white rule from the continent. In these terms, the proposed reforms are essentially an attempt to stave off future revolution...