Word: rearm
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...makes his swing through the Middle East this week, U.S. Secretary of State James Baker brings a further contradiction with him. In a region that is the most heavily armed in the world, the U.S. would like to see smaller arsenals on all sides. But Washington is poised to rearm its friends heavily, in some cases as the payoff for their membership in the alliance against Iraq. It doesn't help matters that Western arms dealers are ready to capitalize on a war that sometimes seemed like a giant trade show for smart bombs, Patriot missiles...
...provide arms support for the F.M.L.N." Baker also asked that Gorbachev pressure Castro: We want a "Soviet commitment to reduce Cuban military and economic assistance as necessary to ensure that Cuba does not increase ((the)) flow of lethal weapons to Nicaragua and to ensure that Cuba does not rearm the F.M.L.N." "Baker called his demarche 'requests,' " Pavlov remembers, "but they were really demands. Malta had taken place as scheduled, but we believed quite seriously that the course of U.S.-Soviet relations was in jeopardy...