Word: westing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What would be the status of Gaza and the West Bank? I don't know the term for it, but I know there will be two sovereign states in the area: Israel, with the old boundaries, and Jordan, to the east of the river. And in between there is an area that should be under the sovereignty of neither Israel nor Jordan. What I am insisting is that we Israelis should have the right to settle there, that we should not be considered foreigners, and that we should have the right to keep our forces there for our self...
Failure to approve the plan at the next defense ministers' meeting in Brussels in December, it is feared, could perpetuate a serious military imbalance. Although Moscow loudly claims that the new NATO missiles would give the West a perilous "strategic advantage," NATO planners, as well as the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London, estimate that they would at best achieve nuclear parity on the Continent. In conventional weapons, Moscow and its Warsaw Pact allies have a decided superiority...
Moscow's propaganda efforts were aimed principally at Britain and West Germany, the two keystone countries of the NATO scheme. After Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher publicly supported the missile proposal, and skeptically belittled Brezhnev's promise to withdraw what she called "a few tanks and troops," Pravda promptly labeled her a "bellicose lady" and scoffed that "she tried on Winston Churchill's trousers but they don't fit." Bonn, meanwhile, was put on notice that its whole Ostpolitik of seeking peaceful relations with the East would be in jeopardy. Calling the missile issue "literally a touchstone...
...introduce an arms-control proposal of their own for limiting medium-range weapons. The judgment of the State Department is to watch the strident Soviet campaign, at least for the time being. Whatever the problems the NATO allies may have with their divided or left-leaning parliaments, the prevailing West European attitude toward the Soviets is believed to have hardened in the past two years. ''So far the Europeans have reacted pretty staunchly,'' said one senior U.S. specialist. Added a Defense Department official: ''With the scars of the neutron bomb on our back...
...prices. Members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, unable to spend their petroprofits fast enough, began parking many surplus dollars in banks outside the U.S. Cartel members now have $74 billion in these Eurodollar deposits. Bankers also started lending large amounts of Euromarks and Euro-francs, which are West German marks and Swiss francs deposited outside their home countries...