Word: salvos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...spikers forged ahead for the first time thanks to Panther mistakes, winning three straight points to establish an 11-8 advantage. This time it was Pitt's turn to come back as two short spikes and a dink forced an 11-11 deadlock. Sophomore Jon Ross's inside salvo and a smart defensive play by senior Captain Brad Martin gave Harvard a 12-11 lead. But strong Panther serves threw the Crimson off balance and Pitt captured the next four points to take the first stanza...
...first salvo from Washington prompted an unprecedented counterblow from Moscow, which in turn triggered a second strike from the U.S. Fortunately, this intercontinental escalation involved only words about nuclear missiles-in fact, competing proposals for getting rid of them. But the public relations battle, essentially for the mind of Western Europe, could not have been more serious...
...first propaganda salvo came from Marshal Nikolai Ogarkov, Chief of the Soviet General Staff. In a rare interview, Ogarkov bluntly described the consequences of any NATO missile buildup as "very sad, very bad." The Soviet Union, he told the New York Times, would have to respond to a NATO nuclear attack by striking back directly at the U.S. Declared Ogarkov: "If the U.S. would use these missiles in Europe against the Soviet Union, it is not logical to believe that we will retaliate only against targets inEurope...
With those words, the Vice President fired his opening salvo in a hastily arranged twelve-day, seven-country public relations blitz calculated to win the hearts and minds of the growing number of Western Europeans troubled by the missile issue. Their major concern: that U.S. rigidity in negotiating an arms control agreement with Moscow would mean almost certain deployment of 572 U.S. Pershing II and cruise missiles in Western Europe beginning at the end of the year. Bush's task is formidable. He will strive to present a "flexible" U.S. commitment to arms control while asking the Europeans...
John Kennedy was the most forthright in his alternating moods. Many nights he sank into a black fatalism, telling friends it was a certainty that somebody, some time, would launch a nuclear salvo. Within minutes he could change personality and assert that it was his job to modify the lessons of history...