Word: expansionist
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...contrast to the hostility shown Tanaka in 1974, Nakasone's reception in Indonesia was warm. Apparently confident that Nakasone will not lead his nation on an expansionist path, President Suharto did not even raise the question of Japan's recent military buildup. In Manila, Nakasone expressed his deep regret to President Marcos over Japan's wartime depredations in the islands. According to Nakasone, Marcos was sufficiently moved by the gesture to declare that "the era of stability has opened in Asia." In the Malaysian capital of Kuala Lumpur, Nakasone firmly rejected the notion of any future military...
...managed to gain access to as much as 65% of all West Bank land. Israel's stated goal is to have 100,000 Jewish settlers in the West Bank, an increase of 76,000, by 1987. The U.S. believes that as long as Israel continues on this expansionist course the peace process is doomed...
...discovery in the late 1970s of oil reserves estimated to total as high as 200 billion bbl., second only to Saudi Arabia's supply. As the pace of oil development increased, public expectations rose, and the government of President José López Portillo launched a bold expansionist program. To pay for imports, private and public corporations increased their borrowing abroad. The crunch came when the current worldwide recession, along with the oil glut, sent prices tumbling for Mexican crude. Meanwhile, high U.S. interest rates increased the carrying cost of the Mexican debt...
...Iranian government went to some effort last week to persuade the gulf states that it had no designs on any Arab countries other than Iraq. Complained Majlis Speaker Ali Hashemi Rafsanjani: "The West is trying to depict us as an expansionist power." He noted that the gulf states had supported the Iraqi invasion of Iran in 1980, but magnanimously said that his government considered their action "pardonable...
...failing to state its position forcefully, the Administration appeared to the Arab states to be a silent partner in the attack or at the very least an overly indulgent ally. Until the U.S. can distinguish openly between American policy and Israeli policy, and rein in some of the more expansionist tendencies of the Begin government, it cannot make real headway in improving its relations with the Arab world...