Word: thrust
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...thrust of what he said throughout the last few weeks is very damaging to our country, and to the establishment of our principals and the maintenance of them, and the achieving of our goals to keep the peace and to get the hostages released...
...Soviet invasion of Afghanistan has thrust upon the Carter Administration a question whose answer is not as obvious as it seems: whether-and to what extent-to arm Pakistan. The U.S. suspended both military and economic assistance to Islamabad in April 1979, after concluding that Pakistan was secretly engaged in building a uranium-enrichment plant capable of making atomic bomb materials. That cutoff was required under U.S. laws aimed at preventing the spread of nuclear weapons. Furthermore, Washington has reason to worry about the longevity in office of Pakistan's President Mohammed Zia ul-Haq. Ever since he seized...
Despite Zia's drawbacks as a leader. Carter Administration policymakers have concluded that Pakistan must be strengthened in order to discourage the possibility of a Soviet thrust from Afghanistan through the Khyber Pass. Zia has an exalted sense of how much strengthening is needed. When he heard last month that Carter was thinking of providing $400 million in military aid, he petulantly rejected the offer as "peanuts." Just how much Zia thinks he deserves is not yet known, but State Department officials have hinted at a Western aid pack, age of $1.5 billion, including the originally specified $400 million...
...West as Soviet intervention in the Third World through surrogates. The Soviets' invasion of Afghanistan with their own troops abruptly changed the situation and challenged Fidel Castro's claim to leadership of the Third World. In the United Nations, nonaligned states attacked the Soviet imperialist thrust, while Cuba's representative lamely endorsed the Soviet action without specifically mentioning Afghanistan. The invasion killed Cuba's chances of winning a much desired seat on the Security Council...
Like a timid Shakespearean character, Felipe Ruiz seemed destined for anonymity until events thrust a touch of greatness upon him. After allegedly killing a Spaniard, Ruiz stowed away on a ship of Dominican friars bound for missionary work in 17th century Japan. The little band of Catholics found the Japanese less than hospitable, and Ruiz, refusing to denounce his religion, was burned at the stake with his newly found companions. He might have been little more than one amoung countless church martyrs except that Pope John Paul II will be arriving in the Philippines in early February to make Ruiz...