Word: intentionally
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...question vital to Soviet intentions about the tragedy is who authorized the order to fire. The hours of radar tracking and even the period of scrambling after Flight 007 entered Soviet airspace would allow ample time for the matter to be passed all the way back to Moscow. Lynn Hansen, of the Center for Strategic Technology at Texas A & M, doubts that anyone below a three-star colonel-general, such as a Far East-theater air-defense deputy commander, "could make that weighty a decision; they're all scared of that responsibility." Georgia Tech Sovietologist Daniel Papp warns that...
...happened, preparations for Big Pine II also began last week: an advance force of 250 U.S. soldiers was flown into Honduras, for the start of months of elaborate military exercises with that country's armed forces. The maneuvers, nominally for training purposes, have a more important strategic intent as well: Reagan wants to intimidate the leftist insurgents in El Salvador and, even more, the Sandinista government of Nicaragua that supports them...
...congressional fears that the Reagan Administration was recklessly risking war by scheduling large-scale military maneuvers in Central America. If U.S. forces are attacked at any time during the six-month-long maneuvers, Shultz declared, "our forces will defend themselves but they will withdraw." He added, "We have no intent to engage anyone actively...
After the showy 1908 London Games, France's Baron Pierre de Coubertin, then president of the International Olympic Committee, shook his head and declared, "The Games must be less expensive." Nice point, Baron. Unfortunately, national pride intent on outdoing predecessors has blossomed, and so have the deficits. The 1976 Montreal gathering, for instance, wound up $1 billion in the red, and the Moscow Games three years ago required a nation-strapping $9 billion to stage. But last week, with a year to go and counting, the Los Angeles Olympic Organizing Committee, a private group, seemed well under way toward...
...educators can study Japan profitably, but not if the intent is merely to replicate...