Word: lift
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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NATO reinforcement capabilities are crucial, and the new U.S. defense budgets are also addressing these needs. This means more air and sea-lift capacity from the U.S., and pre-positioning in Germany of combat equipment for the first wave of reinforcements. The purpose is to provide the maximum margin -again for diplomacy, if it could still function-before the terrible decisions on nuclear escalation would have to be faced...
...hands, West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, as expected, was Reagan's harshest critic, lecturing the U.S. President about his "overreliance" on monetary policy to check inflation. Schmidt openly charged that Reagan's advocacy of stiff trade restrictions with the Soviet Union conflicted with the U.S. decision to lift its embargo on grain sales to Moscow. Still, Schmidt had worked carefully with Trudeau before the conference began to seek "a middle ground" in which...
...that dashed off vitriolic criticism to academics became compassionate when everyday folk asked for spiritual advice. To a German prisoner contemplating suicide: "Regarding your prayers. How do you know they are in vain? God has his own time, and he may well know the right moment to lift the double shadow that now lies over your life...
...18th Airborne Corps, now based in Fort Bragg, N.C. Still the R.D.F. faces serious shortages both of manpower?most of the other units earmarked for it are also supposed to be available to reinforce NATO in an emergency?and of equipment. More than that, the airlift and sea-lift capacity does not exist to carry R.D.F. troops into battle as quickly as might be required...
...field-hospital fashion, outside the hotel. Bystanders worked hand in hand with policemen, fire fighters and doctors, about 1,000 rescuers in all. Cheers rose each time they found a survivor. Two construction cranes were brought to the scene; their booms poked through the arching lobby windows to lift away the most massive pieces of wreckage. A bulldozer was brought in as well. At one point, an amputation was performed in the lobby: doctors could free one trapped man only by cutting off his leg. On Saturday morning, with the hotel exhibition hall serving as a morgue, the fingerprinting...