Word: pledgees
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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With a pledge of support extracted from other senior commanders, the general convened a ceremonial session to proclaim himself President. Rios Montt prudently dispatched tanks to the country's principal air force base as "a preventive measure" in case the officers there chose to be rebellious.
With the economies of Europe as well as the U.S. already in trouble, a brush-fire trade war is the last thing that any government would like to see erupt. Thus, for weeks, U.S. negotiators had been meeting privately with European Community officials in a search for some sort of...
Unforgettably, the Pope declared that he and Archbishop Runcie were pledged to the task of "praying and working for reconciliation and ecclesial unity according to the mind and heart of our Saviour Jesus Christ." In the cloisters after the joint service the two men sealed their pledge by grasping each...
I think I would depart from the no-first use declaration because it does have a strong effect on Europeans....Everything I've seen of European responses, they want the residual uncertainly in the Russians' mind that a war in Europe on conventional terms could lead to a nuclear escalation...
Mandelbaum: I would say perhaps a couple of things about the European issue and extended deterrence. I myself don't feel that a no-first use pledge would make much difference as long as there are 7000 or I guess now 6000 American nuclear weapons in Europe. I don't...