Word: rashness
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...realistic about détente and don't expect it to be the millennium, I think we can build from that relationship and use it for not only the relaxation of tensions between ourselves and the Soviet Union, but as an instrument in calming fears, holding back rash action and keeping the world relatively quiet so we can work for the solution of the problems on a regional basis around the world...
Despite the rash of Asian leaders forming links with Peking, a strong case can be made that the biggest loser of the Viet Nam War was Communist China and not, as it may at first have appeared, the U.S. One admittedly prejudiced senior China watcher in Washington puts it thus: "The removal of the relatively benign American presence from the southern flank of China has caused Peking a lot of worry. Hanoi's relations with China are uneasy. Soviet access to Southeast Asia-possibly a naval base at Cam Ranh Bay [site of the largest U.S. military installation during...
...Christian Democrats knew long before election day that they were in trouble. Italy's economic miracle had run out of steam. Soaring consumer prices led to bloated wage demands and a rash of strikes. Public services were so badly administered that they were cynically called "public disservices." Unemployment rose to 5.7%, a high figure for Italy. Austerity policies at home (including unpopular higher taxes) brought about a dramatic improvement...
Bombing Needed. Though the operation's success muted criticism, several major critical questions indeed were being asked. Some people wondered why the U.S. had not warned merchant ships to avoid the area around the Wai Islands because of the Cambodians' belligerency. Certainly U.S. intelligence was aware of the recent rash of seizures. Another issue was whether Ford had adequately pursued diplomatic approaches before ordering in the Marines. Yet the Cambodians indisputably showed no interest in settling the crisis through diplomacy...
...major trading partners, down a disastrous 24.9% from the Smithsonian Agreement level of 1971. Any sharper decline would give the nation's already soaring inflation rate of 30% an explosive new thrust. Labor Cabinet members were warring openly over economic policy and the Common Market referendum, and a rash of strikes had slashed output in the automobile, rubber, tractor, aerospace and shipbuilding industries. Hopes that the Prime Minister might take an uncharacteristically firm grip on the situation were briefly raised when he offered to go before the nation in a televised interview...