Word: threats
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...agreed to defuse their own border tensions. That would mean that at least one of Syria's two divisions on the Iraqi border could be redeployed closer to Israel. The Israelis were also concerned about reports that Syria was moving antiaircraft missiles into Lebanon. Israel considered that a threat, since no planes have been involved in a major way in the Lebanese fighting. Both Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and Ambassador to Israel Malcolm Toon cautioned Israeli officials not to push Damascus too hard, lest Syria feel it had to respond to the challenge or lose face. Privately, American...
...there is no immediate threat from the Syrians in Lebanon, then why has Israel issued such tough warnings...
...negotiators now find municipal treasuries empty. Traditional civil service security has faded after mass layoffs in both Detroit and New York City. The resulting militancy of police unions-or benevolent associations as they are often euphemistically called-has led not merely to demonstrations, "blue flu" job actions and the threat of illegal strikes, but to fights over departmental policies. "Police union leaders have been attempting to invade what we chiefs have always considered management prerogatives," says Ed Davis, Los Angeles' tough top cop. Antonio Amador, president of L.A.'s Police Protective League, unapologetically pleads guilty: "I want...
...current euphoria among those who are introducing legalized gambling and those who are welcoming it, it is already clear that in its present forms it can be no panacea for states' and cities' budgetary woes, and it poses little threat to illicit gambling. Yet in one sense, legalizing gambling is a healthy recognition of reality, one of society's periodic and necessary adjustments of its laws to changing mores and unchanging human nature. Almost by definition, such evolutions solve some problems and create others. It is far too early to wager on whether the U.S. will win or lose...
...rejecting moderation and sowing intra-Arab dissension prior to the founding of Israel. The turbulent childhood of Rahman al-Qudwa (in later life Yasir Arafat) is shadowed by Palestinian fear and hostility to a growing influx of foreign Jews; it is the conflict between opposing reactions to this threat which marks young Rahman's coming of age. As relatives of the Muftis and prominent businessmen themselves, the future fedayeen leader's family had felt the bludgeon of al-Husayni's fanaticism even before Rahman's birth. Caught in the power struggles between the reactionary Muslim Brotherhood and the followers...