Word: outflank
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...Soviet presence on the Horn of Africa, says former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, was not an "unselfish" response to an appeal from Ethiopia involving its quarrel with Somalia. Moscow's purpose was geopolitical: "To outflank the Middle East, to demonstrate that the U.S. cannot protect its friends, to raise doubts in Saudi Arabia right across the Red Sea, in Egypt, in the Sudan, in Iran. " Speaking in Manhattan last week to the International Radio and Television Society, Kissinger suggested that four basic principles should be kept in mind−perhaps by the Carter Administration−as the Russians...
...heavily for taking the city. He persuaded Washington to 1) keep most of his troops dispersed around New York and 2) concentrate on entrenched artillery along the rivers around Manhattan. Washington still hopes to keep British ships, especially troop transports, from moving freely up and down the rivers to outflank him. To this end he has also placed chevaux-de-frise (chains of sunken hulks studded with stakes just beneath the water line) between New Jersey and Fort Washington, just south of the King's Bridge. The extent to which such devices may hinder British naval action is doubtful...
...attack even if it had to give up the passes. But the Israeli General Staff wants to keep the passes. Guiding newsmen on a tour of Giddi and Mitla last week, Colonel Simcha Maoz of the General Staff pointed out that any Egyptian armor allowed through the passes could outflank the mammoth Israeli base at Bir Gafgafa, 15 miles to the north...
...almost larger than life figure at 6 ft. 2 in., with a barrel chest and an Afro that leaps from his temples as if galvanized, he works at a pace that would exhaust most men. His 18-hour days and hundreds of phone calls a week have helped him outflank such established matchmakers as Madison Square Garden and Top Rank, Inc., a longtime promoter and closed-circuit telecaster of Ali fights. Of course he has not been hurt by the cooperation of Ali and his manager, Black Muslim Executive Herbert Muhammad, who are happy to break old traditions and deal...
...keeping up its verbal support for the leftist insurrections that have survived for decades in the region's remoter areas. Moscow, too, already has normal relations with most of Southeast Asia's countries and a small but growing trade with some; despite Peking's efforts to outflank it in Southeast Asia, the Soviet Union will no doubt continue to be a significant factor as the countries of the region make their adjustments to the new realities...