Word: prospectively
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Cardenal left Nicaragua in the spring of 1980 to lecture in this country against the Sandinistas and organize a coherent opposition. He speaks with dismay about the country he left behind, "controlled in effect by Cuban advisors, lacking the basic freedom of the press, and without the prospect of open elections for the future...
INDEED, a deterrent second strike is aimed not at hardened silos but at eminently vulnerable cities. If current missiles threaten to turn Moscow into a 600-foot crater, does the prospect of an 800-foot crater act as a substantially greater deterrent? The MX is tailor-made for one purpose the destruction of Soviet missiles in their silos...
...gives the lie to Administration attempts to paint the Soviet Union as the "real" nuclear menace. The only thing more horrifying than the prospect of the United States fighting a nuclear war is the prospect of the United States starting one. Surely those games have been played out, where vastly outnumbered NATO forces are overrun in Europe and the last hope of the West is America's nuclear umbrella...
That depressing prospect made it incumbent on the U.S. to take a new line in the Geneva talks. The allies strongly made the case for an interim solution to Vice President George Bush when Reagan sent him to Europe in February to sound out opinion, and Bush argued it with equal vigor at the White House when he returned. The Administration then decided to wait until after the West German elections of March 6. Once those elections had confirmed in power the pro-American government of Christian Democratic Chancellor Helmut Kohl, an interagency group under Deputy Secretary of State Kenneth...
...26th meeting to discuss the conditions under which Israel would withdraw its 35,000 troops from Lebanon. They made no substantial progress, and on Thursday U.S. Special Envoy Philip Habib flew back to Washington for consultations. Administration officials charged privately that Israel was stalling in order to thwart any prospect for broader peace talks. Apparently frustrated by Israeli intransigence, and perhaps to give King Hussein some timely encouragement, President Reagan said last week that the U.S. would continue to hold up delivery of 75 F-16 jet fighters to Israel until that country has withdrawn its troops from Lebanon...