Word: threatenings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bulawayo 3,000 Africans marched to work one morning in pajamas, but a threatened general strike fell flat. In general, nothing very much happened that could threaten Smith's hold on the nation. "All's quiet on the home front," he declared happily after a Cabinet meeting last week...
...Vietnamese war, and the industry actually welcomed the Government's release of the metal as a way to help avert bottlenecks. In fact, the industry had raised prices in response to increases abroad. But Defense Secretary McNamara, announcing the news at one of those evening press conferences that threaten to become habitual, left little doubt as to what he thought about copper's price rise-or anyone else's. "By definition," said McNamara, "a price increase is inflationary." Reacting even faster than the aluminum producers had, Anaconda and Phelps Dodge within 45 hours rolled back their...
...illustrate a strategy of pure force, Kahn presents the metaphor of "the escalation ladder," an abstract model which considers the various levels of violence at which nations can negotiate, threaten, and make war. The ladder begins at the level of an "ostensible crisis," in which neither side takes its opponent's demands seriously, and works its way up through forty-four rungs and six thresholds to "spasm war," in which a nation fires its total arsenal against the enemy with the goal of maximum destruction...
...Rhodesia's Africans, UDI transformed this bleak prospect into a promising crisis. As a consequence of Smith's declaration, international sanctions will now shake Rhodesia's economy. Export markets will shrink; Rhodesian currency will be devalued; new investment will cease. Stagnation will threaten the good white life of swimming pools, big cars, and servants...
...much less certain, for they lack unity and capable leadership. Zambia's President Kenneth Kaunda has castigated them harshly: "Call them nationalists! I call them stupid idiots who do not know what they are saying." Even in the present crisis, the two Nationalist parties do not cooperate. While they threaten lurid bloodshed, they have not been able to organize even a makeshift government in exile, much less a general strike in Rhodesia. Their weakness may well be Smith's greatest strength...