Word: undercut
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...revising its transcript of the radio transmissions of the Soviet pilots who pursued Flight 007. The amended version was the result of an electronic enhancement of the tapes, which is standard procedure in such a case. It was immediately publicized by the State Department even though it somewhat undercut the American position. A remark by the pilot of the Su-15 that shot down the airliner, originally said to be unintelligible, was revised to read, "I am firing cannon bursts." This seemed to buttress the Soviet claim that its pilot had fired tracer shots to warn the Korean jetliner away...
...issue alone, they could be drifting toward a crisis. The two tracks of the 1979 NATO decision may end up leading to a spectacular collision, in which arms control crashes into deployment. That could mean the derailment of both enterprises, since an end of the talks could further undercut the already shaky support in Europe for new weapons...
...spring, when the Administration was desperately trying to save the MX program, Clark tried to go ahead, on his own, with the appointment of Robert Dornan, a right-wing, very hawkish former Congressman from California, to a middling position in the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency. This heavyhanded move undercut the Administration's campaign to project a more conciliatory image on arms control negotiations. Clark dropped the idea when Congress balked...
...present situation easier." There was no way of knowing whether Andropov's conciliatory tone was prompted by Williamsburg, or whether it was even genuine. Some diplomatic sources were cynical about Andropov's arms, suggesting that he was merely firing another salvo in his "peace offensive" to undercut support for the missile deployments this fall...
...distinguished U.S. scientists and arms experts who are campaigning for a ban on the development of weapons in space. The Soviet leader's letter, which was released by the Soviet news agency TASS last week, appeared to be part of a broader effort by the Kremlin to undercut the Reagan Administration's plans to launch an extensive research and development effort to produce new weapons aimed at destroying offensive warheads and enemy satellites in space...