Word: threats
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Trying to hang on to the canal in the face of growing opposition might be more of a threat to U.S. security than gradually ceding control. "This thing is terribly explosive," says a high Administration source. "If the treaty is rejected, we'll confront a bloody mess in Panama, and elsewhere." It is generally conceded that the waterway is basically indefensible. Determined guerrillas could close it down for an indefinite period by lobbing a few hand grenades into lock machinery. Says a top British military expert: "The whole history of the years of decolonization since 1945 has shown that however...
...people of Rhodes seem unaffected by their historical promimence or the ever-present threat of war. In the city of Rhodes, life continues as it has for centuries: a tradesman prepares his foodstuffs for market, a group of scholars pause to talk on a medieval street...
...terrorists might well pose a greater potential danger to more people, there was much more apprehension of the threat of random shots in the dark from the lone gunman. He has haunted lovers' lanes, attacked couples coming from strobe-lighted discotheques, even opened fire at a pair of girls on a house porch and shot another as he passed her on a street. Twice he taunted police with notes (one left at the scene of a double murder, one sent to Columnist Jimmy Breslin). He has phoned precinct headquarters to say which neighborhood he planned to hit next...
...bankers have good reason to applaud the Witteveen facility: it will at least relieve both them and their international borrowers of a burden that is swiftly becoming a threat. Lately, private banks have taken on much of the job of recycling the enormous surpluses piled up by oil-exporting nations. Total debts owed by governments to major commercial banks ballooned from $110 billion in 1969 to $550 billion last year. Now the banks are reaching the ceiling of their willingness to lend to troubled nations-and countries such as Brazil, Mexico, Peru and Zaire may be nearing...
Viking finally decided to publish it. But perhaps the best thing would have been for each major U.S. publisher to issue a different snippet of the novel. The threat of lawsuits would thus have been spread evenly around the industry-and few readers, forced to put the novel together through separately published installments, would have had the patience or the cash to discover what an overwritten bore The Public Burning really...