Word: rearm
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...growing recognition that the civil war cannot be stopped as long as Somoza reigns. As an American-trained national guardsman put it last week, "In this war, nobody gives an inch. The current round could cease in two weeks. But when it does, both sides will just rearm, and we'll be fighting again in three months or so, just like before...
During the February revolt against the hapless government of Prime Minister Shahpour Bakhtiar, the Kurds took advantage of the chaotic situation to rearm. They stormed army garrisons in northern Iran, seizing huge quantities of weapons. The latest outbreak apparently began over the appropriation by the army garrison in Sanandaj of a large portion of the city's flour supply, as well as the bulk of the town's bread. Feelings among the city's population, which is mostly Sunni Muslim, were already running high because the local revolutionary courts were dominated by Shi'ites loyal...
...Chinese went to the Swedes for cooperation in mining, railroads and telecommunications, to the British for $315 million worth of coal-mining equipment, to the Danes for help in improving Shanghai and other ports. They browsed in Sweden, France and England for modern weaponry with which to rearm their badly equipped military forces. They will probably make only a few selective purchases at first, because of their shortage of capital. Chinese and Americans kept up brisk negotiations. Coastal States Gas Corp., a U.S. firm, agreed to buy 3.6 million bbl. of Chinese crude, the first shipment to arrive early this...
...Chinese to go along with a multinational effort to secure a permanent Korean peace. Korea, he reasons, is vital to the security of Japan, the economically most powerful nation in Asia. If Korea should go Communist, or be swept by war, Tokyo might well be forced to rearm in a massive way, probably with atomic weapons. Many Japanese officials are as afraid as Kissinger is of the prospect of a remilitarized Japan. They have urged him to make direct approaches to North Korea, if necessary, to guarantee peace on the peninsula...
...American financial help. Publicly, the Ford Administration demurred at granting aid; privately, Administration spokesmen indicated that they were ready to discuss it. For one thing, they explained, it might be less expensive and less dangerous for the U.S. to shore up the Egyptian economy than to rearm Israel for a new war. For another, said a State Department official, "if we leave Egypt to solve its money problems in the Arab world, then we shouldn't be surprised if Egypt's political maneuvering remains strictly in an Arab context." The embarrassing problem for Ford, of course, is that...