Word: threats
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Barry Blechman cautioned, however, that the numbers in themselves can exaggerate the Soviet threat. "Their military power is very troubling, and I'm not saying that we should discount it," he explained, "but I certainly wouldn't throw up my hands in despair and say that we will be on the losing end." The U.S. spends a great deal on readiness, for example. "We keep roughly half our strategic submarines at sea at all times, where they can hit their targets, but only about 15% of Soviet subs are on station." he noted...
...nevertheless confirmed the continuing commitment to the three-legged "triad" (air- and sea-launched and land-based strategic missiles) of the American nuclear deterrent. Any such Soviet strike against the Minuteman missiles, Carter warned, "would amount to national suicide for the Soviet Union; but, however remote, it is a threat against which we must constantly be on guard...
...earlier times of trouble, Egypt has seen itself as the protector of the Arabs against Israel; in fact, it became involved in the 1967 war partly because of a real or imagined threat by Israel against Syria. All that is changed now. Last week, when Israel invaded another Arab state, Lebanon, there was no talk of mobilizing the Egyptian armed forces, and the Egyptian President at first criticized the Israeli action with notable restraint. It all bore out what influential Egyptians have been saying for weeks: "No more Egyptian blood will be shed for Palestinians...
...replay of the Battle of Yorktown, but the U.S. did win a significant victory over Britain last week. Since mid-February, the two countries had been deadlocked in a tense and sometimes bitter confrontation over transatlantic air fares: Washington wanted them cut. London said no. But faced with the threat that the U.S. would start restricting British flights to the rich American market, the U.K. gave in. It will now allow U.S. airlines, and presumably its own. to fly passengers between London and 14 American cities-including Atlanta, Chicago. Dallas and Seattle-at budget and stand-by fares proportionately...
...warn that the U.S. would retaliate in some manner if the British did not agree to new low fares by March 17. Nothing was ever said publicly about possible U.S. restrictions on flights by the state-owned British Airways, a far more important carrier than Caledonian, but the threat was certainly there. As one British embassy spokesman put it: "Carter hung a St. Patrick's Day sword of Damocles over our heads...