Word: threats
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...military authorities emphasize that the F-15, which is armed with air-to-air missiles, is essentially an air-defense system. While 60 planes would give Saudi Arabia a credible air defense, they would provide only a marginal threat to Israel, which will have at least 40 F-15s of its own by 1982 as well as 75 of the more maneuverable...
...second is, it is time that one overcomes the ridiculous myth of the invincible Cubans. Who has ever heard of Cubans conducting a global foreign policy? We cannot conduct our foreign policy under the threat of the possible intervention of Cuban troops. It is a sign of the decline of our world position that we have inflicted on ourselves through Viet Nam, the collapse of Executive authority produced by Watergate, and our own internal disputes. Twenty years ago this would have been considered absurd, and it is a proposition that is bound to undermine our position around the world...
...favor the attempt to enable all leaders and factions to participate in the proposed elections. At the same time let us take care not to turn majority rule into a device by which those who could not win an election try to force their way into office by the threat of force. Majority rule must not become the slogan of those who have already rejected a multiparty system and already announced that they want to create a one-party state. And majority rule must include protection for minority rights. If the black and white communities cannot live together under...
...Life Assurance Co. in Montreal was once the largest office building in the British Empire, the secular cathedral of the English-speaking business elite in the world's second largest French-speaking city. Now it is a symbol of panic in the face of Quebec's threat to separate from the rest of Canada. Last week Sun Life's 1 million policy holders voted by a 5-to-1 ratio to transfer the headquarters to Toronto, Canada's bustling financial capital. Sun Life (assets: $5.5 billion) thus became the biggest company to move out of Quebec...
...press was almost an aside. Filing a concurring opinion, Chief Justice Warren Burger aired the same view in an eight-page essay that at times bordered on a polemic. "Modern media empires" enjoy "vastly greater influence" than most banks or corporations, stated Burger. They "pose a much more realistic threat to valid interests...