Word: fallback
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...spoke: he quoted Shakespeare. And the weekend closed with a 45-minute speech by Brzezinksi, who told the assembled guests of Knoll. "If the Middle Eastern region becomes destablized or controlled by an adversary the scales of history will be tipped." He explained that American currently has a "no-fallback position" on the Persian Gulf, adding. "We are faced with another power over which we do not have strategic superiority--I will not say that we are inferior, but the relationship of power is ambiguous and that is a novel situation...
...when they launched their surprise attack on Iran nearly a month ago. Saddam Hussein had hoped that the Khomeini regime would crumble under the first attacks. Now he needs to turn the stalemate into a clear-cut victory, or at least to extricate himself with some face-saving diplomatic fallback. Otherwise, Iraq's strongman runs the risk of falling victim to the same kind of coup that he engineered against a number of his former comrades and superiors in the on-again, off-again bloodbath of Iraqi politics...
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Entering the U.S. embassy in Kabul, for example, a visitor is scrutinized at a dozen different fallback layers of security. First he has to sign in, have his passport checked and business verified at a gatehouse. Searchlights sometimes follow him across the courtyard, closed-circuit TV cameras beam his image to half a dozen screens inside. Behind the electronically controlled door, credentials are checked again, cameras and tape recorders yielded. An electronic detection booth checks further for hidden weapons; Marines stand ready to frisk thoroughly. Finally, when a member of the embassy staff emerges to provide a personal escort...
Vance was never able to use his fallback instructions. Instead of making a counteroffer, the Soviets curtly, categorically rejected both the U.S. comprehensive proposal and the "Vladivostok deferral" alternative?the first because it would have sharply cut existing Soviet programs while leaving U.S. forces unscathed; the second because it deferred the issue of the cruise missile, which the Soviets