Word: threat
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski told a meeting of the Atlantic Treaty Association in Washington: "Let there be no question about our commitment and our determination to help defend Europe by all means necessary-nuclear and conventional. There are no conceivable circumstances in which we would not react to a security threat directed at our allies in Europe...
...Soviet Leader Leonid Brezhnev delivered a speech in East Berlin marking the 30th anniversary of the founding of East Germany. Brezhnev warned that the new NATO weapons would "radically alter the strategic situation on the Continent," and "poison the international atmosphere." He singled out West Germany for a special threat: "It would not be difficult to imagine what consequences would await her if this weaponry was ever put to use by its owners...
...numbers are so huge that this is a small bite." The Soviets, moreover, could pull out support personnel like military police, cooks and clerks. What is more, if the 20,000 troops are moved just inside the western Soviet border, they would hardly constitute any less of a threat to Europe...
...helped trigger the crisis, introduced a mild resolution that he had worked out in advance with the White House. He proposed that before SALT can be approved, "the President shall affirm that. . . Soviet military forces in Cuba are not engaged in a combat role and will not become a threat to any country in the Caribbean or elsewhere in the Western Hemisphere." Thus the burden of proof is put on the Administration, not the Soviet Union. The White House interpretation is that the brigade can remain in Cuba as long as it does not appear to assume a combat role...
...more wrong. Much as his inventions did benefit humanity, Edison's object was to make money, as much as he could. His first patent was on a device for automatically and speedily recording votes in Congress and state legislatures; but because such a machine was seen as a threat to the filibuster, the legislators did not want it. Edison later took delight in recalling what he had resolved then and there: "Anything that won't sell, I don't want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success." For once, there...