Word: threats
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Shah, facing the gravest threat to his throne in a quarter of a century, moved swiftly to quell the opposition that has been building against his regime over the past nine months. His policy was twofold: 1) to punish corrupt officials and subversives and 2) to demonstrate convincingly that Tehran's springtime of political liberalization, begun only a month ago, would continue...
...growing military threat was reason enough for both London and Washington to continue pressing the Salisbury government and the Patriotic Front to agree to attend an all-parties conference before the end of the year. Zambian President Kenneth Kaunda and the other front-line Presidents, who have been working jointly for a Rhodesian settlement, still favor such a conference. So does Robert Mugabe, Nkomo's somewhat estranged partner in the Patriotic Front. Mugabe is not nearly as popular a political figure as Nkomo, but because he controls at least two-thirds of the guerrillas who are fighting inside Rhodesia...
MADAGASCAR--Armed forces went on alert last weekend to meet what a government report called the threat of "imperialist aggression," particularly from South Africa...
Castro testified he did not intend the statement as a threat. "My intention," he said, "was to warn the government that we know about the plots against our lives...
...that first base to home plate hook-up that ended a ninth inning Tiger threat and protected an 8-6 Red Sox lead, handing the struggling Boston team a nerve-racking win over Detroit last night...