Word: reacted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Soviet intervention in Afghanistan, unfortunately, highlights the competitive part of the relationship, and we would not be true to our historical obligation if we did not react very firmly and very energetically to this intervention. We have to do something because this intervention poses wider geopolitical challenges...
...successful turn, get going in another direction, so that the U.S. and Iran will start negotiating." The 61-year-old diplomat, who once described his office as a mailbox for messages from antagonistic governments, was reluctant to go to Tehran in the first place. "How will the Iranians react?" he asked. "My going there depends on their attitude...
...Candidate Ted Kennedy, called the President "extraordinarily naive" in his "lack of appreciation of what the Soviets are all about." More obliquely, Senator Kennedy made a similar point. Said he: "I am deeply concerned that our foreign policy is out of control-that all we can do is react to events that constantly take us by surprise...
George J. Murphy, a construction worker from peabody, said he strongly favors the sanctions. He added that he hoped the Soviet people would react by pressuring their government to remove its troops from Afghanistan...
Says Hoffmann: "To me, the biggest meaning of Iran is that it is the first major international crisis that is not an East-West crisis, and for that very reason we find ourselves much less able to react. There is very little attention given to the problems of revolutionary instability and internal discontent. Americans don't study any of this, and when such events happen, we are caught by surprise...