Word: strength
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Washington version of budget brinkmanship, the stakes range from the health of the world's largest economy and the strength of its armed forces to the fate of a college student's grant. All that and more were put at risk last week, when the capital's political gamblers -- the President and the Democratic leaders of Congress -- allowed the nation to bump up against the threat of bankruptcy...
...pull down mistrust built up over 40 years. As a Soviet military man, I am concerned by some actions of the U.S. I am saying this not to offend anyone but so that the American public will know. First, the U.S. and NATO are still pursuing a position-of-strength policy toward the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact. We have elaborated a new defensive doctrine and put it into practice. We are unilaterally reducing our armed forces by 500,000 and have reduced them by 220,000 already. But the U.S. and NATO have not introduced a new doctrine...
...proceed from the position that the foreign policy of the Soviet Union is based on demilitarization. The use of force is ruled out, except when someone confronts the Soviet Union from a position of strength. Some Soviets may approve of the changes in Hungary and Poland, others not. That's their opinion. Our policy is such that we are not interfering in these internal processes...
...this way. If the U.S., as you say, pursues a policy of strength and, at the same time, key Warsaw Pact members are changing their view of the world, including their relationship to the Soviet Union, that must have some impact on military thinking...
...oppose the denomination's official stand against ordination of "practicing" homosexuals. Some clergy are promoting more radical opinions. Carter Heyward, one of the Episcopalians' pioneer female priests, is now an enthusiastic lesbian and a theology professor at the Episcopal Divinity School in Massachusetts. In a new book, Touching Our Strength: The Erotic as Power and the Love of God (Harper & Row; $12.95), Heyward says that for gays "fidelity to our primary relational commitments does not require monogamy." She even allows for some sadomasochism...