Word: standoff
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fight over the energy bill has been a highly instructive political drama. The deadlock of almost evenly matched forces suggests not only irreconcilable "special interests" fighting each other, but an ideological standoff between the more or less conventional Democratic prophets of controls...
advocates of the free market, a standoff quite characteristic of the country as a whole. It is hard to remember a past legislative fight where these opposing forces were so evenly matched-and where there was so little readiness to compromise...
...result so far is something of a geo-political standoff. The Soviets have lost their primary Indian Ocean naval facility, but can probably find some kind of alternative-possibly on Ethiopia's Red Sea coastline. They have exchanged the friendship of Somalia for that of a far bigger country. But Ethiopia is an extremely fragile ally that is fighting wars in its northern province of Eritrea as well as the Ogaden, and is led by an unstable junta. Only last week the junta executed its second in command, Lieut. Colonel Atnafu Abate...
Moreover, in the face of improved Soviet air defenses, the B-52 can be used as a "standoff' bomber as opposed to a "penetration" bomber. The standoff bomber's mission is to deliver cruise missiles to within range of its targets. It would stop short of Russian borders and fire salvos of missiles to overwhelm Soviet defenses. According to Defense Secretary Harold Brown, all major targets in the U.S.S.R. are within range of cruise missiles fired in this manner...
Long before the March SALT standoff in Moscow, the central issue in the U.S.-Soviet arms race had become the increasing vulnerability of land-based ICBMS to surprise enemy attack. In recent months, U.S. defense officials and strategic analysts have warned repeatedly that the Soviets were rapidly increasing their ability to destroy American missiles. Meanwhile, although the fact has received surprisingly little publicity, the U.S. is on the verge of taking a big step forward in its own ability to knock out Soviet ICBMS in their steel-and-concrete silos. The startling success of the new program has important implications...