Word: aggressor
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...missile system to defend the nation's cities against a possible attack by enemy missiles, the U.S. has relied to date on an offensive system whose devastating retaliatory capabilities would, presumably, deter the enemy from attacking in the first place. The present U.S. arsenal should indeed give any aggressor pause. It consists of the 1,000 Minuteman Is and IIs, 54 Titan IIs and 656 Polaris missiles, as well as 555 B-52 and 80 B58 intercontinental bombers armed to unload nuclear bombs on any enemy in the world-although some 60 B-52s are now based on Guam...
...from Zambia, Somalia, Malaysia and Burundi read off lengthy speeches asking that Israel be condemned for attacking the Arabs and forced to retreat from Arab territory. Yugoslavia, supported by 16 pro-Arab nations, submitted a resolution calling for Israel's unconditional withdrawal but not condemning her as the aggressor. Nepal, Peru, Ireland and Argentina, among others, supported the U.S. view that any withdrawal must be accompanied by an Arab agreement to live in peace with Israel. Nigeria offered a complicated scheme to turn Israeli-occupied Arab border areas into neutral buffer zones...
...Saigon, worked in West German revanchism and, straight-faced, held up Soviet respect for the right of "every people to establish an independent national state of its own" as an example the U.S. might follow. On the Middle East, he was strictly Aleks in Wonderland. Israel was the "unbridled aggressor," guilty of "unprecedented perfidy" and encouraged, of course, by the U.S. He likened Israel's actions to "the heinous crimes perpetrated by the fascists during World War II." Demanding U.N. condemnation of Israeli aggression, immediate and unconditional withdrawal of Israeli forces and reparations by Israel to the United Arab Republic...
Beyond encouraging direct Arab-Israeli negotiations and resisting Russia's attempts to brand Israel the aggressor and strip away all of its gains, U.S. policymakers are looking toward the future-far into the future. Lyndon Johnson characteristically visualizes a TVA-style project for the Jordan River basin. White House Aide Walt Rostow, in a commencement address at Vermont's Middlebury College, proposed a regional economic program. But no long-range plan can work, as Johnson conceded at a weekend fund-raising dinner in Austin, unless each nation in the area accepts "the right of its neighbors to stable...
Kosygin was ready to argue that the Assembly ought to brand Israel an aggressor, and insist that it "disgorge the fruits of its aggression"-meaning withdraw from the Arab territories it now occupies-before any peace talks could begin. The two are very different propositions. On the purely technical matter of aggression, Israel scarcely bothers to deny any longer that it started shooting first. On the day before the guns opened up, the Israeli Cabinet met secretly to discuss whether to launch a "preemptive" attack before the gathering Arab armies struck. Abba Eban argued for further diplomatic efforts. Defense Minister...