Word: gulf
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...Middle East, "When you want to make war, go to the Soviets. When you want to make peace, go to the U.S." Today, however, like so many other things in the region, that old saying is being turned on its head. From North Africa to the Persian Gulf, Soviet diplomacy, reflecting the more sophisticated policies of Mikhail Gorbachev, is back in business...
...description of how the U.S. got into war in Viet Nam in 1965? Or how it might become embroiled in the Persian Gulf conflict the day after tomorrow? Not quite: this war began in 1846, when President James K. Polk sent troops to occupy a disputed border area between Mexico and the new state of Texas, touching off fighting that Congress reluctantly formalized with a declaration of war. Otherwise, though, Polk's action might have been a dress rehearsal for the bloody undeclared wars the U.S. has fought in the past four decades. It illustrates a conflict between congressional...
...same gulf between rhetoric and reality exists in China. The country's current charter, its fifth since 1949, grants "freedom of speech, of the press, of assembly, of association, of procession and of demonstration." Peking nonetheless responded to widespread student protests last winter by detaining the leaders, firing university officials and halting demonstrations. Authorities then shut down half a dozen liberal periodicals and banned scores of books, magazines and films throughout the country...
Kuwaiti oil tankers once known as the exotic-sounding Al Rekkah and Casbah will soon be traversing the Persian Gulf bearing such familiar American names as Sea Isle City and Ocean City. But more than just the names will have changed. Under the plan President Reagan announced in the wake of Iraq's inadvertent attack on the U.S.S. Stark, eleven Kuwaiti tankers are scheduled to begin sailing under the Stars and Stripes next week. They will be captained by American skippers and escorted by American warships as they ply the world's most treacherous waterway...
Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger tried to mollify Congress with a 26- page report explaining the Navy's new rules of engagement in the gulf. Warships are now operating under "hair-trigger" alert, prepared to fire on any plane or vessel that approaches in a hostile manner. Under these rules, the Iraqi jet that zeroed in on the Stark would have been blown out of the sky before it could launch its missiles. He assured worried Congressmen that the threat to U.S. vessels was, as the report put it, "low to moderate...