Word: threatens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...crises, and wars of the Third World. These "hot-beds" (the Russian word connotes ember waiting to flare into flame) have drawn in the superpowers since 1946, when the United States armed the Koumintang in China against its internal communist enemies. Periodically, as with the Korean war, local quarrels threaten to escalate to world wars. Today Soviet and American military planners share the view that once the superpowers become involved war will spread, and they see the explosive politics around the Persian Gulf as the most likely origin of the next great...
...downing of an unarmed airliner by the U.S.S.R. emphasizes the degree of the Soviet paranoia and the folly of pur placing provocative first-strike Pershing and cruise missiles on its borders. A situation will be created involving nuclear weapons that will threaten millions of lives. Only by establishing better relations and easing tensions with the U.S.S.R. will we avoid more air tragedies and the ultimate catastrophe, World...
...Talks, set to resume this week in Geneva, also seemed likely to remain stalemated. Their prospects not only were shaken by the Andropov blast, but Reagan is having almost as much difficulty negotiating with Congress, his State Department and the Pentagon as with the Soviets. Some key legislators still threaten to vote against final funding for MX-missile deployment in the U.S. unless the Administration takes a more flexible position in START, as it has now done...
...left the base in 1954-but it is emotionally correct. Kaufman wanted to do a movie about "a particular form of American heroism" and to ask the question "How does that elusive quality survive in the midst of the American circus, the chaos, public commotion, the panic, that all threaten to stamp it out?" The answer, of course, is that it can do so only in total isolation and self-sufficiency. So Yeager's life had to be mildly, benignly fictionalized...
...Cadets threaten to score again--until safety Mike Dixon picks off a pass on his own 25-yard line and sprints down the sideline to put. Harvard right back in the game, which it went...