Word: redresses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cruise missiles, the Trident II submarine program, the B-l and Stealth bombers, the Reagan START proposal in effect offers the Soviets a choice: accept a bilateral deal requiring a cutback on the weapons that may have made the U.S. vulnerable to a first strike, or the U.S. will redress the balance unilaterally by deploying an array of new weapons. In other words, make sacrifices now or face a greatly increased American threat later...
...propaganda points by advancing highly self-serving, largely spurious proposals for a moratorium on new missiles in Europe. This plan, if adopted, would leave them with a brand-new generation of rockets that they have nearly finished deploying, while preventing NATO from modernizing its older forces in order to redress the balance...
...arms control policy as well. "Haig and the conservatives argue that a freeze would lock the United States into its present position of "military disadvantage and dangerous vulnerability," doing away with-both the incentive for the Soviets to negotiate arms reduction and the chance for America to redress the imbalance...
...good reviews Clark has been getting during his debut period carry some caveats between the lines. Like Reagan, he has never been accused of being an intellectual. His move to the White House improved a messy operation but has done nothing to redress another chronic problem: the Administration's lack of a strategic world view...
...have known what they want out of life, and their desires are connected to the violence around them. The Belfast children long to get away from that violence, even if it means not seeing their country again. The Israelis want peace with victory. The Palestinian children seek redress for wrongs done their people. The Cambodians yearn for tranquillity. Within their various desires, they show great kindliness and generosity and a high sense of fairness. This generally applies to the children of Viet Nam as well. Most of these children seek a little of each of the things sought...