Word: threatened
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Cairo, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat sacked his Premier and shuffled his Cabinet to calm domestic protests that threaten his position...
...seems less priestly chastity than schoolboy prudery). To keep Bekla's economy prosperous, the Ortelgans revive a particularly obnoxious slave trade dealing in children. Kelderek, his mind on the possibilities of sainthood, thoughtlessly gives his approval of this abomination. Thus morally undermined, the bear cult deteriorates until enemies threaten Bekla. The bear Shardik is wounded, escapes to the countryside, kills an evil slave trader, then dies himself. After some hideous adventures, Kelderek atones for his misrule, marries a beautiful but slightly soiled virgin priestess, and sets up a community to care for former slave children...
...been "flagrantly violated" by Hanoi (but neglected to mention that they had been flouted by Saigon). Hanoi had been emboldened to do so, Ford suggested, because military aid to Saigon had been cut back by Congress; Ford also pointed out that the President's capacity even to threaten retaliatory military moves had been curtailed by a congressional ban in July 1973 against money for any further U.S. military intervention in Southeast Asia and by the War Powers Resolution passed over a Nixon veto in November 1973. The eventual result, according to Ford, was that 18 North Vietnamese divisions had been...
Both Presidents [Nixon and Thieu] viewed with great concern infiltrations of men and weapons in sizable numbers from North Viet Nam and . . . considered that actions which would threaten [the peace agreement] would call for appropriately vigorous reactions . . . (President Nixon affirmed that the U.S. for its part expected to continue, in accordance with its constitutional processes, to supply the Republic of Viet Nam with the material means for its defense consistent with the Agreement on Ending...
...recovery from the recession proceeds gradually, with little renewed inflationary pressure, and the deficit is held within manageable limits, bond interest rates should rise slowly to levels only slightly higher than now and new issues should be readily marketable. In any case, the recent tempest does not yet seriously threaten industry's ability to raise the funds it needs for expansion, modernization and paying off of short-term debt...