Word: redirection
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Soviet antitank rocket launchers. Screaming "Allahu Akbar!" (God is great), they charged the advancing Iraqis and were quickly locked in savage hand-to-hand combat. Meanwhile, the Iranian regular army commander, startled by the untimely appearance of his fanatic countrymen directly in his line of fire, was obliged to redirect his guns to the rear of the enemy formations in order to avoid killing fellow Iranians...
...private anguish of cash woman cuts her off from any relief as she retreats further and further into her own shame, imposing a double exile; her own and the world's What is left these people who have chosen to continue rather than to interrupt and redirect their lives, is a bewilderment of absolute intensity. The incident goes deeper and deeper until there is only in their lives this sharp hart which is felt as a sadness that seems to have no cause, that haunts them, that gives them throughout a sense of somewhere having failed, of always being under...
...latest dustup began when reporters aboard the Boeing 707 that flew Weinberger to Saudi Arabia, Oman and Jordan filed stories quoting a Pentagon official as saying that Weinberger wanted to "redirect" American military assistance away from Israel toward the Arabs. As soon as this appeared in print, another spokesman insisted that the message had been garbled; Weinberger wanted only to "redirect" U.S.-assisted Arab military efforts toward countering internal subversion, as well as potential Soviet threats. But suspicion was inevitably aroused in Israel, where some newspapers bluntly described Weinberger as "an enemy" because of his alleged pro-Arab views. (Haig...
...Haig, returning to the U.S. from a trip to Portugal, Spain, Morocco, and Rumania, just as Weinberger was getting back from Amman, hastened to assert that "there was no specific request [from Jordan for U.S. arms], no offer made and no decision made of any kind." He added that "redirect" was "a very incorrect word" to describe U.S. policy toward the Middle East, however it had come to be used...
Reagan tried to distinguish his proposal from a similar but ill-fated attempt by his predecessor to offer something novel to the Soviets. In March 1977, Jimmy Carter sent Cyrus Vance to Moscow with an ambitious scheme to redirect the SALT talks by asking the Soviets to make deep cuts in their existing arsenal of intercontinental ballistic missiles. Like Reagan, Carter had outlined his proposals in public before submitting them formally to the Soviets. Also like Reagan, Carter hoped that the Soviets could be persuaded to dismantle existing weaponry in exchange for U.S. promises not to deploy a planned system...