Word: footholds
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Either way, the change in Soviet leadership would seem to afford both opportunities and perils for the U.S. On the one hand. President Reagan must be careful to retrain from belligerent anti-Soviet rhetoric. A nation like the U.S.S.R.--manned by new leaders anxious to gain a firmer foothold in power is unlikely to treat the President's words as mere bluster, and a precipitous response could have grave repercussions...
Because we need a foothold in the Middle East, the U.S. has built up Israel. Prime Minister Begin has taken advantage of this. He plans to make Israel the ruler in the area by starting more settlements on the West Bank and occupying Lebanon. Begin has caused the rebirth of anti-Semitism all over the world...
Citicorp's attempt to gain a foothold on Bank America's turf dates back to early 1980, when a tentative deal to buy Fidelity for $200 million fell through because of opposition from federal and state regulators. After the failing thrift was seized last April 13 by the Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corp., however, it was rechartered as a federal mutual association when the Government had a more favor able attitude toward interstate takeovers...
...something that Argentina has greatly desired for years. Headlines in the local press claimed extravagant victories (THE ENGLISH HAVE SUFFERED 200 DEAD AND 800 WOUNDED), but few citizens could ignore their government's reluctant admission that 1) the British had established a beachhead on the Falklands and 2) the foothold was rapidly growing. More and more, Argentines were expressing a longing for peace. Said Produce Vendor Jose Oscar Moryda, as he tidied up his display of fruits and vegetables in the El Retiro market in central Buenos Aires: "If I knew the Pope was coming here specially to bring...
...Parliament met on a Saturday for the first time since the Suez crisis in 1956, I was asked on all sides: What would happen next? I replied that the obvious first thing would be a blockade. What then? Repossession of South Georgia, I suggested, to give a land foothold and at the same time show that Britain meant business. And then? If the Argentine government could not see the possibility of a new entry into the negotiating field, there was likely to be a battle. The task force had been sent out to fight a battle, if it must, with...