Word: winging
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...leaders and their top aides met first for two hours in the Cabinet Room in the West Wing of the White House. The Israelis reluctantly agreed to talk about peace principles first and Lebanon, only fleetingly, later. Carter pleaded with the Premier to agree to withdraw troops from most of the West Bank in exchange for two conditions: that neighboring Arab states would establish full diplomatic, economic and other relations with Israel, and that the U.S. would consider guaranteeing Israel's security...
...SALT agreement, moreover, would not check the Soviet Union's buildup of conventional arms. At sea, for example, the Red Fleet leads the U.S. Navy in major surface combat ships (230, v. 175) and attack submarines (234, v. 78); the onetime unchallenged U.S. superiority exists only in fixed-wing aircraft carriers (13, v. 0). Noted Blechman: "The Navy has had serious problems, and the shipbuilding program, with its long delays and cost overruns, is just one of them." Observed Hyland: "We no longer seem to know what we want the Navy to do: project power ashore far from...
...land, the U.S.S.R.'s conventional advantage is most dangerous in central and northern Europe. There the Soviet-led Warsaw Pact vastly outstrips NATO in military manpower (945,000, v. 630,000), tanks (20,500, v. 7,000), artillery (10,000, v. 2,700) and fixed-wing warplanes (3,525, v. 2,050). While an imbalance has existed for some time, the gap has been widening in recent years, increasing the doubts about NATO'S ability to repel an attack. Although that attack may never come, the possibility has important political consequences and therefore needs...
...Prewitt is cold, ironical, and very effective in his role as Dick Savage, the bright young businessman under Moorehouse's wing. Prewitt's greatest assets are his insincere smile and deceptively flat voice. Where Moorehouse is soft, Prewitt's Savage is tough and pragmatic. Somehow he will survive the Crash and become the new era's success story; even as the cognac flows in a Paris cafe in celebration of the end of the world war, Savage suggests somewhat cheerfully, "Who knows? We might be back here for the next...
...drive a train. And Ronnie, ever the six-year-old boy who had brought a bunch of fresh-picked flowers to his new mother, always needy for the mothering attention of elegant ladies in great country houses. It was under Lady Acton's affectionate (if platonic) wing that he translated his celebrated Bible...