Word: trapped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...would be uncomfortable about spaceships firing lasers, and particle beams circling over our heads. Still, the Russians should have gambled that SDI is just a theory, and if it does become a reality, they could then take it up again in ten years. Iceland was not a Soviet trap. It is part of a continuing process. We should not have expected more...
Whether it was all part of a calculated plan to trap the U.S., Gorbachev's opening gambit achieved an intermediate goal: relinking the issue of medium- range missiles to SDI for the time being. Before Reykjavik, the Soviets had indicated that they would be willing to make an interim deal on INF divorced of strategic and defensive issues. The American game plan had been to decouple as many issues as possible from the prickly SDI dispute. But Gorbachev enticed the Americans into a whirligig of negotiations with his sweeping proposals. Only toward the end, when U.S. and Soviet positions overlapped...
...fact, it only took one day for the Washington Post to run as its lead editorial an admonition to the American public to avoid falling into the trap of questioning whether Daniloff was a spy or not. Not only was the Post unwilling to question Daniloff's involvement with the CIA, it came close to asserting that anyone who did make such an inquiry was unpatriotic...
Plotkin and his colleagues are also assessing the economic potential of such tropical plants as "killer" potatoes, which trap insects on their sticky surface hairs; the Amazonian buriti palm, rich in vitamins A and C; the pupunha palm, whose proportions of carbohydrates, proteins, oil, minerals and vitamins make it an ideal staple; and Fevillea, a vine with seeds rich in an oil that may one day be used as an industrial lubricant...
...laughed. "Come on, Rutger," I said. "Disney? Conspiracy? Didn't you ever see The Parent Trap with Haley Mills? A charming, absolutely charming film, as were all Disney films. Sure, none of 'em were Taxi Driver or Apocalypse...