Word: weaknessness
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In the case of Pakistan, the Zia regime is clearly less than democratic. Nevertheless, Zia is sandwiched between nations that pose significant military threats: hostile India, unstable Iran, and the Soviet Union. And should Pakistan collapse through military weakness, given the record of extremism in that region, it is hard...
The key failing of the Soviet document, which was also a weakness of the Reagan Administration's effort, is that it does not address U.S. and Soviet forces in comparative terms. Thus much is said about the U.S.'s Ohio class Trident submarine, but nothing about the U.S.S.R...
When the generals wanted to explain their crackdown to the West Germans, Rakowski was naturally the man they sent to Bonn. Martial law, he said, was necessary to prevent the outbreak within "a matter of weeks" of a civil war that would have provoked a Soviet invasion. Stern Publisher Henri...
The show marks both a departure and a continuation. Diebenkorn's recent drawings (all are paintings on paper, in a restricted color range keyed to blue) develop, with some diffidence, out of the quasiabstract Ocean Parks. Those works, which have occupied him from 1967 to the present, are arguably...
None of these problems is unique, of course, in fact or fiction, and Godwin never claims otherwise. She does make the three women who face them singularly interesting. They are all intelligent enough to wish, sometimes, that they were less so. Nell would like to blend comfortably into the extending...