Word: recklessness
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...again. The European press was quick to applaud Leonid Brezhnev's surprise call for a U.S.-Soviet summit at the recent Soviet Party Congress and his subsequent letters to Western political leaders expressing his interest in arms limitation. In stark contrast, President Reagan is often portrayed as a reckless warmonger intent on bombing the Soviets "back to the Stone Age," as the West German weekly Stern recently...
...Egged on by the likes of Budget Director David A. Stockman and under pressure to make up for his outrageous tax-cut promises, Reagan has asked Congress to eliminate or cripple many valuable programs and agencies, including several that support higher education. The legislators must refuse the president's reckless proposals and instead consider ways the government can help ensure the future health of colleges and universities...
Soviet strategy has been, and will probably continue to be, brazen and brutal. But it has not been, and probably will not be, reckless. In picking their targets, the Kremlin leaders chose nations that the U.S. had somehow denied as outside its area of national interest. Congress did so explicitly in the case of Angola in 1975; the Carter Administration did much the same with Ethiopia; poor Afghanistan was effectively conceded to eventual Soviet domination as far back as the '50s, when Secretary of State John Foster Dulles left it sandwiched between the U.S.S.R. and the now defunct Central...
...Mile Island, a hundred thousand people were almost exposed to excessive doses of radiation, because men in power within both the private and public sectors, through fear, greed or incompetence, put politics, economics or pride before the public health and safety." When Stephens asks, "Is there a repair for reckless self-interest?" the answer seems depressingly obvious...
...idea of a "presence" is not that you're going to try to build up an army big enough to stop the Soviet Union if it moves that way. That is not what is necessary. What is necessary is to indicate to them that by taking any reckless moves they would be facing a possible confrontation...