Word: skirmished
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...enough to focus attention for a few months on the nation, and enough to check our government's action to some extent. But it was a very few months, and the popular indignation never transcended the case of El Salvador. Once again the left had failed, won a skirmish or two but resoundingly lost...
While Haig was moving toward a truce with Allen and the White House, the Secretary of State inadvertently opened a new skirmish with Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger, with whom he has clashed before. Haig was appearing before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to explain the Administration's $180 billion plan to upgrade the U.S. nuclear arsenal. He remarked that NATO contingency plans include the option "to fire a nuclear weapon for demonstrative purposes" to deter a massive conventional-force Soviet thrust into Europe. Haig did not say where this warning shot would be detonated. His point, mainly lost...
Here are former Secretary of Defense John S. McNamara (thank you for that skirmish in Southeast Asia), former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger '50 (thank you for those secret bombings in Cambodia and that stable dictator in Persia) and former Secretary of Defense Harold Brown supporting the AWACs sale. As Sen. Daniel P. Moynihan (D-N.Y.) pointed out in the Senate debate last week, Brown had written a letter to Congress on May 9, 1978--at the time of the debate over the sale of F-15 fighter planes--which stated that F-15s would "not be equipped with...
...starting with John Kennedy, the job of Commander in Chief changed dramatically. Thanks to modern communications, Presidents became as intimate with battlefields as company commanders in a skirmish...
...Reagan Administration seems to have been almost spoiling for a skirmish with the Soviets, or at least a shouting match. It has also shown a disturbing tendency to treat virtually every international problem as a manifestation of the U.S.-U.S.S.R. rivalry. Haig returned home last week insisting that friends of the U.S. in Europe and the Middle East were reassured by America's determination to stand up to Soviet expansionism. But he also seemed somewhat chastened by criticism of the tenor of U.S. policy, as well he should be. Haig will soon be supervising an interagency review of East...