Word: maneuverers
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With every passing day Watergate was circumscribing our freedom of action. We were losing the ability to make credible commitments, for we could no longer guarantee congressional approval. At the same time, we had to be careful to avoid confrontations for fear of being unable to sustain them in the...
The immediate Israeli military rationale for an attack on southern Lebanon is to wipe out the P.L.O. guerrillas based there. Beyond that, Israel would like to help its allies, the Lebanese Christians, become stronger, and if possible force Syria to withdraw its 30,000-man peace-keeping force from Lebanon...
The clatter of mess-hall cleanup had just given way to the nocturnal sounds of the jungle when Sergeant Manit Kammung and 800 other Thai Border Patrol Police suddenly received orders for a maneuver in the north. Armed with assault rifles, grenades, recoilless rifles and rocket launchers, the men clambered...
The queries as to our motives were even more wounding to us who had agonized though a night of desperate uncertainty. Yet it showed how narrow was our margin for policy. If we courted confrontation, following the advice of the anti-détente zealots, we would almost surely be undermined...
At 6:40 a.m. I called Soviet Ambassador Anatoli Dobrynin at his embassy in Washington. Roused from bed, Dobrynin claimed the whole episode must be an Israeli maneuver to justify a pre-emptive attack. I told him that my point in calling him was to guarantee precisely the opposite. Pedantically...