Word: bluffs
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...intelligence experts in Washington believe that the Kremlin will sooner or later have to use force in Poland. The likelihood of intervention will remain high, they say, even if the recent Soviet military buildup turns out to be a bluff. With no sign of easing tensions, Western analysts revised their initially optimistic estimates of an earlier East bloc summit in Moscow. At that meeting Party Boss Stanislaw Kania may not have got a reprieve, as first thought. Instead, he was apparently read the riot act: either revive the party and get the country moving again-or else. "These talks were...
...believes that Brzezinski puts too much emphasis on the "use of military power or bluff, ignoring, in my judgment, the political, the economic and trade aspects of our relationship with the Soviet Union...
...most boisterous meeting turned out, somewhat surprisingly, to be the one in the chambers of House Speaker Tip O'Neill, a bluff Democratic partisan who had never met Reagan. O'Neill clapped Reagan on the shoulders and boomed out introductions to Democratic Congressmen so loudly that they could be heard through closed doors. Then O'Neill took Reagan aside for 15 minutes of advice. Reported Tip: "I said to him, 'You were Governor of a state, but a Governor plays in the minor leagues. Now you're in the big leagues. Things might not move...
...score tax reform measures since 1922, and has acted on none of them--not even one drafted by its own tax commission. The Commonwealth's property taxes are 70 per cent higher than the national average and still the legislature stands pat. It will take Proposition 2 1/2 to bluff the politicians on Beacon Hill into revising the tax structure...
...protecting the flow of oil out of the gulf, American officials remained confident that an Iranian threat to mine the Strait of Hormuz if other countries intervened in the conflict was a bluff. U.S. intelligence found no evidence that Iran was manufacturing mines or acquiring them from abroad. But just in case, helicopters rigged for minesweeping were standing by on U.S. carriers in the nearby Arabian Sea. "There is no question that we can keep the strait open," Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs David McGiffert told TIME...