Word: resistance
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...nearby settlement roam the streets, machine guns in hand, smashing the glass from Arab cars and shop fronts In Nablus, Israeli bulldozers demolish 20 Arab houses in retaliation for a bomb blast at a Jewish shop. In Elon Moreh, illegally situated Jewish settlers set up barbed wire to resist the Israeli soldiers who have to be sent in to remove them The picture that emerges from Halabi's assembled reports is not a pleasant one. On both sides of the conflict, the trend is toward less tolerance, less listening and more violence...
...possible to explain to the absolute ruler of the Middle Kingdom the finer points of a constitutional system that placed even the highest officials under the rule of law. At the same time, Mao had a point. Watergate interested him primarily for its impact on our fitness to resist Soviet expansionism. The geopolitical consequences threatened to dwarf the original offense...
...decade, detente is being made to bear the burden for the consequences of America's self-destructive domestic convulsions over Viet Nam and Watergate. The former made Americans recoil before foreign involvement and thus opened an opportunity for Soviet expansionism; the latter weakened Executive power to resist Soviet pressure...
...American President soon learns that he has a narrow margin for maneuver. The U.S. and the Soviet Union are ideological rivals. Détente cannot change that. The nuclear age compels us to coexist. Rhetorical crusades cannot change that either. A President thus has a dual responsibility: he must resist Soviet expansionism, and he must be conscious of the risks of global confrontation. His policy must embrace both deterrence and coexistence, both containment and an effort to relax tensions...
...ultimate task is to strengthen peace in the world. The American people expect it from their leaders; the nuclear age imposes it as a moral and practical necessity. We can resist aggressive policies best from a platform of peace; men and women of good will and decency can be enlisted only in support of a policy of positive aspirations...