Word: threatening
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...accidental outbreak were clearly increasing. Although both sides have exacerbated the tensions, U.S. officials put most of the blame on Syria. In a sharply worded statement, the State Department warned that the Syrian buildup of forces "could only lead to increased tensions in an already volatile area and could threaten the uneasy peace in Lebanon...
...transatlantic arrangement." Said he: "If you are to defeat neutralism, anti-Americanism, pacifism in Europe, you must try to explain in what way you think that the Soviets can use their nuclear superiority in Europe. Public opinion does not believe that the Soviets now are going to even threaten to use nuclear weapons to achieve political purposes...
...Gdansk, the Polish Cardinal spent about half an hour talking with Walesa. Both men favor negotiations between the government and Solidarity. In their view, the papal visit looms as a major opportunity to prepare the way for a new dialogue. The Catholic hierarchy thus opposes anything that could threaten that hope...
...Chinese are convinced that Viet Nam is bent on dominating Southeast Asia through a tripartite Indochinese socialist union that would include Kampuchea and Laos. Peking also fears that Hanoi's actions are part of a larger Soviet scheme to threaten China's southern flank. Aside from launching their brief attack across Viet Nam's northern border in early 1979, the Chinese have been giving weapons and supplies to the remaining Khmer Rouge guerrillas in Kampuchea. Hanoi, for its part, contends that its troops were sent into Kampuchea partly to end Pol Pot's killing spree...
...Administration had been reluctant to tie the two issues so closely together because it might encourage Israel to stand pat in Lebanon, knowing it could threaten its control of the occupied West Bank and Gaza trip...