Word: threats
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Police said yesterday the site of the bombing was not on Mondale's planned automobile route into the city and posed no direct threat to the vice president adding that officials have a good idea of the identity of those responsible...
Citing the "considerable danger to adjacent countries," a draft resolution sponsored by WHO director Dr. Halfdan Mahler stressed the need for immediate action to eradicate the last known region in which the disease is still a threat...
...British government was convinced that Paisley and his paramilitary supporters were setting out to make a Rhodesia-style unilateral declaration of independence. Although Paisley and his allies denied that their goal was an independent Ulster, the strike was as much a threat to moderate Unionist leadership in the province as to Westminster. One former British Cabinet Minister who knows the province well said last week, "Paisley has always, in the back of his mind, thought of himself as the first president of a working-class Ulster Republic...
Such hard Israeli attitudes heighten the threat of conflict. But with Israel fully rearmed by the U.S. since the '73 war and the Arabs indifferently resupplied by Moscow, the Arab "confrontation states"-Syria, Jordan and Egypt-are not very well prepared for another war. Thus the real showdown in the Geneva delay is beginning to loom between Israel and the Carter Administration. Washington accepts Israel's insistence on the importance of true peace, but not its aim of retaining vast tracts of captured Arab land. If these differences between Washington and Jerusalem cannot be thrashed out, the road...
Ever since Moroccan troops arrived last month and the U.S., France and Belgium offered a little help, the fortunes of Zaire's strange little war have turned sharply in favor of the central government. As the threat declined, President Mobutu Sese Seko flew to the supposedly embattled Shaba region?the former Katanga province?to inspect some recaptured villages. TIME Nairobi Bureau Chief Lee Griggs, who accompanied Mobutu on the trip, sent this report...