Word: specter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Problem: the specter of "another Cuba" in Nicaragua. Cause: the Sandinista regime. Solution: bring down that regime by backing the contras...
That outlook may work for CBS and The Washington Post, but how about the smaller news organizations who have to contend with high insurance premiums and the threat of utter bankruptcy? Do you think that the specter of multi-mill, a dollar law suits will, in practice, chill them...
...specter of Viet Nam no longer inhibits all thought of projecting U.S. military power overseas, it still haunts every specific decision. In the Middle East, Weinberger's fears of entrapment in a drawn-out conflict fought without public support caused him at first to oppose sending Marines to Lebanon and then to insist on their withdrawal after terrorist attacks left 266 U.S. servicemen dead. Shultz objected that the pullout would undercut U.S. diplomacy in the area, and still regards it as a mistake. But Ronald Reagan ordered the withdrawal anyway and won the approval of voters, even though critics portrayed...
...official made sure the back scratching stopped short of anything "illegal or expensive." Reagan aides also put out the word that the President might not be eager to campaign next year for Republican Senators who failed to vote right--a tactic that almost backfired with Pennsylvania's Arlen Specter, who confronted Reagan about it during the Capitol Hill lunch. Specter and others also heard from Geneva, where Kampelman and Colleague John Tower, a former Senator, made calls to warn that the U.S. needed the MX as a bargaining tool...
...Shultz last week, the approaching mobility of Soviet missiles could pose new problems for Washington in keeping track of weapons aimed against the U.S. In the end, the outcome in the Senate depended on a small group of about a dozen fence sitters. Many of them, like Hawkins and Specter, reportedly did not decide until the last day. Four Republicans and three Democrats who voted against the missile last year switched positions. Maryland Senator Charles Mathias, a Republican, explained his switch on strategic grounds, expecially the MX's accuracy. Said he: "Without the MX we don't have a hard...