Word: threatener
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...current standoff in the Gulf in the form of a game called "Chicken." Just as hot-rodding teenagers may scream their souped-up cars toward each other in an adolescent test of wills, each hoping that the other will swerve off the road, so can national leaders threaten each other with mutual destruction in order to persuade the adversary to give...
...officials believe Iraq does not pose an imminent nuclear threat, they do not necessarily dismiss the wisdom of a continuing technological embargo and even a military strike to deter Saddam's atomic program before it gets much further. They argue that the reckless Iraqi leader might use or threaten to use nuclear weapons if he ever obtains them. But an attack to prevent this, says an Administration official, would be a "preventative war, not a pre-emptive one. It doesn't explain why you go to war this month as opposed to six months from...
What about the physical, emotional and psychological expense of abortion? Studies show over 90 percent of women who undergo abortions are left with some type of permanent scars. And what about the effects of abortion on society? Doesn't it threaten to desensitize and sterilize our culture? Unfortunately, at Harvard, the question of who pays the price of abortion is even more direct. The answer...
...history offers some hope that Iraq will back down peacefully. The last Iraqi leader to threaten Kuwait, General Abdul Karim Qasim, found himself isolated internationally with mounting economic problems at home. By 1963, less than two years after laying claim to Kuwait, Qasim had been deposed and assassinated, and his successor had recinded Iraq's assertion of sovereignty over Kuwait. All without a shot being fired in the Gulf...
Fierce flashes of nationalism threaten to tear apart Yugoslavia, while nationalists in Slovakia, one of the two partly autonomous republics that make up Czechoslovakia, are pushing hard for a referendum that would allow Slovakia to break away. Yet while they demand independence for themselves, the 5 million Slovaks, a third of Czechoslovakia's population, deny any such choice to Slovakia's 600,000 ethnic Hungarians; the more militant nationalists even insist that the Hungarians should be made to speak Slovak. To combat such trends, Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev at last week's CSCE meeting called for a new "economic, environmental...