Word: interventionism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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The hostility toward the military that grew out of the Viet Nam War has ebbed. At the same time, Congressmen, like their constituents, have become suspicious of the Soviets. Among the reasons: the accelerating Russian arms buildup, Soviet intervention in Angola and stagnation of the SALT talks to limit nuclear...
The reaction-spending more and more public money on public programs aimed at alleviating national frustrations-could go too far, Moynihan warns. At the moment, that leaves us with only a vague sense of what we should do, of what direction social policy should take. That implies a lessening of...
The civil war grew so intense that Syria came as close to threatening intervention as at any time since the crisis began a year ago. Under severe pressure not only from Damascus but from Yasser Arafat, head of the Palestine Liberation Organization, Jumblatt agreed to a ten-day ceasefire, which...
In Washington, where he conferred with President Ford and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, Jordan's King Hussein argued that Syrian military intervention might be the only way to bring peace to Lebanon. Some Western observers were less sanguine. Reason: a direct move by Syria would almost certainly lead to...
Calling attention to their own forces based along the border, the Syrians hinted at intervention. They also cut off Jumblatt's supply line: at one point he complained that the Syrians were denying him 4,000 guns and 7 million rounds of ammunition that had been donated by the Egyptian...