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...assault on the base, which had been held by forces loyal to Prince Norodom Sihanouk, the former Cambodian head of state, capped a triumphant Vietnamese dry-season offensive that has forced the Khmer resistance to reassess its six-year-old insurgency. In a series of strikes against strongholds of non-Communist and Communist resistance groups, the Vietnamese had pushed the guerrillas out of one border sanctuary after another. As the fighting raged, 230,000 Kampuchean refugees sought shelter across the frontier in Thailand. In ousting the resistance from its redoubts, the Vietnamese also cut supply lines that link Thailand with...
...dispiriting because they seemed to mock a host of recent hints by the white minority government that it might be open to relaxing its system of apartheid, or official separation of the races. Less than three weeks before the rioting at Crossroads, the government had pledged to suspend, and reassess, its policy of forcibly resettling blacks. A week before the sudden arrest of the opposition leaders, attention was focused on Executive President P.W. Botha's offer to release Nelson Mandela, 67, the nation's best-known political prisoner, and to recognize Mandela's outlawed, militant African National Congress on condition...
...Leaders must constantly reassess their strategic goals, and adjust tactics to suit that overall military strategy-or cut and run if necessary...
...most "destabilizing" and dangerous nuclear weapons because they could deliver a devastating first strike. Unlike the INF talks, the START negotiations were never formally ended. But after the deployment of U.S. Pershing II and Tomahawk missiles in Europe began, the Soviets contended that they would have to reassess the global nuclear balance before proposing a date to restart START. Twenty-two months later they still show no signs of ever doing...
...boycotting the Olympics] isn't a very dangerous way to do it." Reaganauts accept the idea that Moscow is signaling to the world a refusal to deal with the President. "That probably won't change until after the election," says one White House staffer. "Then they will have to reassess...