Word: specter
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Ever since the collapse of the Sino-Soviet alliance 18 years ago, a specter has haunted the U.S.S.R.: China's military might. While Poet Yevtushenko depicts Chinese soldiers as descendants of Genghis Khan's Mongol horde, which held Russia in thrall for three centuries, the Soviet press, radio and television more commonly compare the People's Liberation Army to Hitler's invading Wehrmacht in World War II. A film frequently screened on Soviet television showed Chinese officers shouting frenzied battle cries, while fanatic soldiers performed such smashing kung-fu stunts as breaking bricks with their fists...
...serious doubt about Israel's intent to make peace. A duty has fallen on the U.S. to respond not as a superpower but as a friend of the Arabs." Added another official: "Camp David is no longer our No. 1 priority." What alarmed the Egyptians was the specter of a highly armed, militant Iran making common cause with such radically anti-Israel Arab states as Iraq and Libya. P.L.O. Leader Arafat was reported to have conferred with Ayatullah Khomeini in Tehran last weekend, and the Iranians have declared their intention of turning the sacked Israeli mission in Tehran into...
...FIRST TIME since the withdrawal of the last foreign troops from Vietnam in 1975, combat in the region raised the specter of superpower nuclear exchanges. But this time, no American families will receive form letters beginning We regret to inform you that...
...trickiest issue involves the impact normalization may have on U.S.-Soviet relations. Although Teng repeatedly used the U.S. as a forum to invoke the specter of Soviet "hegemony," Administration experts believe that Moscow was not too seriously upset. Teng apparently took care to say nothing that the Russians had not already heard from him. Said one State Department analyst: "Teng had it figured just about right; he knew what would play and what wouldn't." As a result, Moscow only mildly rebuked the U.S. Charged Pravda (inaccurately): "No one [in America] objected to the malicious anti-Soviet insinuations." Soviet...
Though many U.S. companies have in fact been quietly cutting back their European operations for some years, the specter of a wholesale pullout was not raised until last summer. Then, Chrysler Corp. abruptly announced that it was selling its European business to France's Peugeot-Citroën for $430 million in cash and stock in the French company. Since then, alarmist charges have regularly bobbed up in Europe's press. "The American multinationals are deserting," warns a French economic weekly. "U.S. business is at ebb tide," declares a Belgian magazine...