Word: sakes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hallowed half-hour at which British Prime Ministers traditionally make important statements, Margaret Thatcher was more declarative before a hushed house. Hollis was no mole, said she, pointing out that although it was difficult to prove his innocence, government investigations did not confirm his guilt. For safety's sake and political ease, however, the Prime Minister called for a review of all public service security procedures. She also ordered one other investigation - into the contacts that Pincher had tapped to produce his story in the first place...
...atomic bomb; the intercontinental bomber; the hydrogen bomb; MIRV; sophisticated anti-submarine warfare, etc. The Soviet Union has propoed several times since the 1950s an international treaty banning the use of outer space for military purposes, but the US has been unwilling to sacrifice its own advantage for the sake of slowing the arms race...
...Khmer Rouge, there is no excuse for the U.S. to give them any support, not even moral. The regime now in power may be proSoviet, but it is not carrying out mass murders. It would be disgraceful for the U.S. to help bring back this terror for the sake of controlling Soviet expansion...
...beginning for the waging of total war and it is to this end that the Soviet government has taken into its hands a monopoly of national powers and resources." Pipes further claims that the Soviets are willing to risk the consequences of a general nuclear war for the sake of political objectives. He stakes this claim on the fact that the Soviet Union suffered 20 million casualties during World War II, and thus "is not to be intimidated by the prospect of destruction." Pipe's contention is nowhere supported by evidence from the post-World War II Soviet Union...
...Soviet Union were an inherent aspect of the conduct of our East-West policy. We believe it is in the interest of international stability and the American people to avoid the tendency that we have experienced on occasions in the past to rush to summitry for summitry's sake and to bring about euphoric expectations ... and then to dash that euphoria against the rocks of ill-prepared summitry. We want to avoid that. We want to prepare steps for summitry very carefully ... and only then to indulge in that kind of diplomacy...