Word: centralizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...1970s. The events of last week stood also as a grim reminder that it is not the American hostages in Iran that are the central object of U.S. foreign policy, but rather the potentially life-and-death relationship with the Soviet Union...
Moscow's primary purpose in invading Afghanistan, most experts agree, was simply to tighten its control of that rebellious country. The tide of Islamic fervor, which had already shaken Iran, was now threatening Afghanistan. Unless it were checked, might it not also spread across the border into the Soviet Central Asian Republics and stir unrest among their substantial Islamic populations? Thus Soviet leaders probably felt that they had only two options: 1) to allow a Moscow-leaning socialist state on their border to dissolve into chaos and possibly pass into the hands of Muslim fanatics or 2) to move forcefully...
...this done, the Administration must now decide on a longer-range strategy to counter the Soviet Union's initiatives in Central and Southwestern Asia. "Act tough" was the predictable advice offered by one of Peking's diplomats at the U.N. "Teach the Soviets a lesson, that's what you've got to do," said he, making a karate chop. "If you don't, the big bear reaches out for more." But overreaction could be as dangerous as retreat. Not only might too bellicose an American policy provoke a superpower confrontation, but it would greatly concern U.S. allies situated near...
...strategy to counter Soviet aggression in Central Asia, Pakistan would need to be militarily strengthened. This strategically situated land, which not only borders Afghanistan but also touches Iran and fronts on the Arabian Sea, is itself highly unstable, plagued by internal political and economic problems. While the U.S. and Pakistan at one time had such close ties that many Pakistanis referred to their country as the 51st state, relations have been chilly since the 1971 war with India over Bangladesh. The military regime in Pakistan has been angered by Carter's human rights campaign, and by Washington's refusal...
Bologna and Harper carry on the affair that we expect them to have with searing honesty and much acting skill. It is the one believable exchange in a movie whose humor usually shortchanges its central characters. Simon must be admired for daring to share so openly with the public, but he's gone past the line of accessibility. He's inviting us into the bedroom of his mind, and it's an uncalled for invasion of privacy...