Word: specter
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...embroiled once again in a spreading war with no definable limits, with no predictable outcome and with potentially tragic consequences. The attack, undertaken despite the strong opposition of the Reagan Administration, starkly revealed anew how little influence the U.S. has over its ally, Israel. The assault also raised the specter of a U.S.-Soviet confrontation in the Middle East...
During his six-day pastoral visit to England, Scotland and Wales that ended last week, Pope John Paul II evoked the sobering specter of modern warfare at nearly every stop. To a Britain at war, the Pope offered a vision of peace-of the inviolable worth and dignity of every soul on earth. At an open-air Mass, he told 300,000 cheerful but attentive listeners that, if unleashed, society's war machines today would make even the destruction of World War II pale in comparison. He spoke near the most renowned landmark in Coventry, England: the remnant...
...Downing Street, Haig watched time and again as Thatcher pounded the table with the palm of her hand, railing against bowing down to aggression and arguing adamantly for a return to the status quo ante. "You must never forget," she would tell her stunned American guests, evoking the specter of pre-World War II appeasement, "that Neville Chamberlain sat at this very table...
Administration officials deny that accusation. They contend that the Soviets have proliferated land-based warheads beyond any level justified by the legitimate needs of self-defense. Those warheads are now so numerous, so powerful and so accurate that they raise the specter of a pre-emptive strike against the U.S. The Soviets' monstrous ICBMs have given them a nearly 3-to-l advantage over the U.S. in "throw weight"-the cumulative power to "throw" megatons of death and destruction at the other nation. That excessive throw weight on the Soviet side of the scales has upset the strategic balance...
...Negev desert through the Gaza Strip. In addition, Egypt kept the Strait of Tiran closed to Israel shipping (the rough equivalent of Iran threatening to close the Strait of Hormuz to the United States--which Jimmy Carter thought so vital that he was willing to invoke the specter of limited nuclear war in such an event). The second Israeli attack, coordinated with the British and French assaults on Egypt's Port Said, resulted in Moshe Dayan's army reaching Sharm el-Sheikh at the Sinai peninsula's southern...