Word: expansionists
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...problems" of the Palestinian people must be resolved. He might well have added that the West's failure to solve the Palestinian problem has had a lot to do with giving Islamic fundamentalism its anti-Western basis of action. The more ambitious Khomeini's forces become, and the more expansionist his goals in the name of Islam, the more vital it is that the U.S. have a Middle East policy that is perceived to be consistent and fair by all moderate parties in the Arab world...
...Iranians was expected in Syria. Iran's U.N. Ambassador Said Rajaie-Khorasani last week charged that "the U.S. encouraged Israel's bloody adventure in order to save [Iraqi President] Saddam Hussein, strengthen the hand of the reactionary regimes in the region, weaken progressive forces and indulge Israel's expansionist designs." He also charged Egypt and Saudi Arabia with being "pillars of U.S. expansionism...
...more blithely by the United States. Israel can be excused for perceiving its isolation and believing that it has shouldered an unreciprocated (except for Anwar Sadat) burden for peace. The burdens of war by contrast have readily been accepted by all parties in the Mideast conflict, whether extremist or expansionist, pan Islam or pan Arab revolutionary or reactionary...
...paints a picture of the Soviet Union, driven equally by ideological fervor and internal stress, as world conqueror. "Most believe that the Soviets would, as Khruschev claimed, 'bury us' if they were provided with a clear opportunity to do so. They are basically correct." America, by contrast, "is not expansionist today, and we seek no dominance, only stability." (When Tsongas first ran for public office we were embroiled in the Vietnam War. Since that time we have overthrown a government in Chile, and shored up governments in numerous other corners of the globe.) So, in Tsongas's mind, the answer...
...twelve years as Libya's master, Colonel Muammar Gaddafi has earned a special place on the world stage: that of the quintessential troublemaker. Egyptian President Anwar Sadat has described him as "a mental case" and "a lunatic." African neighbors fear his expansionist ambitions. The U.S. considers him an international outlaw and has accused him of meddling in no fewer than 45 nations. When Authors Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre were looking for a villain to cast as the mastermind of a plot to hold New York City up for nuclear blackmail in their novel The Fifth Horseman, they naturally...