Word: move
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...west, a threatening China to the east, a less friendly India to the south, mishaps and reverses everywhere. It is this real or feigned element of paranoia in Soviet policy that makes the current prospects confronting Washington so tricky. Even though one of the purposes of Carter's China move may well have been to gain some geopolitical leverage on Moscow, he apparently felt confident that Moscow would not regard it as an anti-Soviet shift. Shortly after he surprised the world in mid-December by granting Peking full diplomatic recognition as of Jan. 1, Carter said reassuringly...
Although Moscow has known since Richard Nixon's trip to Peking in 1972 that normal U.S.China ties were inevitable, the Soviets were jolted by the abrupt way Carter made the move and the sudden prospect of U.S. arms sales to Peking. Diplomatic surprise is one thing that the Kremlin's aging leadership abhors. Explains Gyula Jozsa, a Kremlinologist at Cologne's Institute of Eastern Studies: "The Soviets can see the logic of the need for the U.S. to recognize Peking. But what worries them is: How far and how quickly will subsequent relations develop between Washington and Peking?" An analyst...
...when I saw the flyer for an introductory meeting of the Harvard Boxing Club asking for "Boxers (Experienced or Interested in Learning), Fight Fans, and Film Buffs," I knew it was time to make my move. In the oxymoronic, or just plain moronic, role of a participant disguised as a journalist, I made my way to the Lowell Junior Common Room last Wednesday...
...official, who asked not to be named, said the move would not make it any easier to resolve the obstacles to a peace treaty between Egypt and Israel...
...Israeli move was seen in Washington as an effort by Begin to pacify the right wing of his Likud coalition...