Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...They really had to know and understand how we felt, what our views were and why we thought it necessary to build up our military defenses. In addition to their aggressive policy of wanting to spread their doctrine throughout the world, there is a great fear on their part that they must be constantly on guard and defensive. This was characteristic of Russia before it was Communist, a suspicion of neighbors. Maybe it goes back to Napoleon's march on Moscow, maybe it goes back to other things of that kind...
...disarmament goals within our foreign policy. As a member of every multilateral disarmament body, Australia is promoting the negotiation of treaties to end nuclear testing and to ban chemical weapons, and measures to prevent an arms race in outer space. We are also helping to strengthen measures against the spread of nuclear weapons. For countries such as ours, there is no substitute for the hard slog of multilateral negotiations designed to engage the interests and support of the superpowers. We were recently encouraged by a U.N. vote in which this year the U.S. changed its vote, thereby bringing us closer...
With the U.S. increasingly the target of terrorists overseas, the inevitable question arises: Can it happen at home? Reluctant to spread undue concern or issue self-fulfilling prophecies, yet anxious to prepare Americans for what they see coming, many experts on terrorism fear the worst. Declares former CIA Director Richard Helms: "It would be surprising if a wave of terrorism didn't hit the U.S." New York Senator Daniel Moynihan, who sits on the Intelligence Committee, was even more alarmist at a New York conference on terrorism last week: "The prospect of 1984 being the year they bring...
Inspiring a general sense of panic among perceived enemies is a major aim of terrorists. So is attracting attention to a cause. Radical Islamic sects want to spread their revolution, and apparently see the U.S. presence in the Middle East as an obstacle. Thus, killing U.S. Marines in Lebanon had an obvious goal: to drive them out by undermining support at home for their deployment abroad. What an Iranian terrorist would hope to accomplish by hitting a target in the U.S. is less clear; perhaps lashing out at "the Great Satan" would be motive enough...
Nonetheless, he maintained, the U.S. already has something like industrial policy in place. Federal, state and local authorities are giving large grants to prop up aging industries and encourage new ones. The Administration has proposed merging trade officials now spread around several federal agencies into a single department that would be modeled after Japan's Ministry of International Trade and Industry. In addition, the Defense Department's Advanced Research Projects Agency is expected to spend nearly $1 billion by the end of the decade to help firms look into supercomputers and other hightechnology areas. "We have all kinds...