Word: threats
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sisco proudly proclaimed himself to be, like Helms, a member of the "old school" of diplomacy, but he was nonetheless cautious about using gunboats. Closely questioned, he said he would send in the Marines to, say, Saudi Arabia in response to a plea from the government to counter a threat that was at least partly external. Said he: "I would have absolutely no hesitancy whatsoever in responding positively to such a Saudi Arabian request, given all the caveats and conditions...
...Viet Nam, but without having faced battle-hardened units of the country's regular army. A further advance south toward Hanoi meant risking a serious extension of supply lines and reprisal by the Soviet Union. On the other hand, a unilateral withdrawal would expose Peking's threat to "punish" the Vietnamese as the growl of a paper tiger...
...permanent port of call at Cam Ranh Bay, the sparkling white-sand harbor northeast of Saigon that served as the main U.S. Navy base in the Viet Nam War. Having rights to Cam Ranh would give the Soviets a dramatic new naval advantage and would pose a potential threat to Chinese and Western shipping lanes, especially Japan's petroleum lifeline through the Strait of Malacca. But with no overt Soviet moves by week's end, Western observers remained hopeful that Hanoi's independent-minded leaders would surely think twice before granting Moscow so strategic a foothold...
Capt. Jack W. Morse of the University police said yesterday the threat was called into the Cambridge Police Department (CPD) at about 8:30 p.m. The CPD then informed the University police...
Almost 1000 B-School students were in the Aldrich building at the time of the threat, Timothy W. Armour, administrative director of the Program for Management Development at the B-School, said yesterday...