Word: equilibriums
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...Once Carter abandoned his campaign promise to withdraw troops from South Korea, U.S. military strategists concluded that the balance of power in the region was no longer in jeopardy. Says John Collins, a senior specialist in national defense at the Library of Congress: "All told, a rough state of equilibrium now prevails between U.S. and Soviet forces in the Far East." Brown believes that the balance of power has even tipped toward the U.S. because of a hardening of attitude toward the Soviets by both China and Japan. China now pins down a quarter of the Soviet air and ground...
...Equilibrium...
...lucid, supple, periodic prose. In Grace and Caro, "a vein of instinct sanity opened and flowed: a warning that every lie must be redeemed in the end . . . In their esteem for dispassion they began to yearn, perverse and unknowing, towards some strength that would, in turn, disturb that equilibrium and sweep them to higher ground...
...speculation by some West Europeans that the U.S. Is politically and militarily weaker than the Soviet Union: The efforts made by the U.S. to ensure equilibrium are considerable. Nobody knows that better than the Europeans. The decision on medium-range missile systems underlines our joint resolve not to accept Soviet superiority...
...Germany in the Western alliance. We think it necessary that the Soviet Union should at last declare its readiness to enter without prior conditions into negotiations on medium-range systems, and that possibility should be sought for disarmament and arms control in other sectors. We, the West, want equilibrium at the lowest possible level of armaments. But we shall not hesitate to secure equilibrium by our own efforts if it cannot be achieved through disarmament...