Word: threats
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Soviet Union. You have to watch them-they work in three ways. First, by trying to get such superior forces they never need use them; a threat would be enough. We must stop them from doing that. Secondly, by trying to outflank and cut us off from our supplies of raw materials. That is the great significance of Rhodesia and South Africa: we get our vital raw materials from there. We're lucky with our oil for the time being. Now there is that colossal outflanking movement right across the oil countries, across the Horn of Africa. The third...
...Soviet objectives. I do regard the Russian threat as a worldwide thing. Their objective has never changed; it is the domination of the world by the Communist system. There are only about 35 democracies now out of about 120 countries. Together, by one means or another, we must see that the Soviets don't win their objectives. We have to get an interlocking alliance throughout the world. I would like to see Japan giving more of her tremendous resources to defense-after all, she is in a pretty tricky position. We have the best political system the world...
Many Japanese are advocating a stronger stand against foreign demands. An editorial in the Tokyo Shimbun, an influential daily, argues that "it has become a fixed pattern that as soon as Japan concedes one issue, the U.S. brings up a fresh one. We cannot tolerate the disgusting threat of retaliation every time a Congressman opens his mouth." Says Economist Kunihiro Takano: "What the Americans are really telling the Japanese is, 'Change your tastes, your attitude and your life-style so you can buy more American goods.' That borders on domestic interference...
...because Japanese wages and other costs would go up. But such a course risks higher Japanese inflation and lower profits, which the nation's business establishment opposes. Unless the corporate chiefs relent, however, they risk the greater shock of having their access to world markets sharply curtailed. The threat of selective protectionism against Japan is rising, and it worries U.S. officials. It would dangerously damage relations with the nation's staunchest ally and biggest customer in the Far East and possibly lead to an international trade...
...said, 'Now I've seen everything.' " Thomas' burden was not a secret weapon but a collection of research animals; the Navy feared that troops on Okinawa would be endangered by a disease called scrub typhus, and Thomas' assignment was to study the dangers. That threat never materialized, so Thomas had to make do with an outbreak of Japanese B encephalitis. It was, he remembers, "the only game in town...