Word: directing
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...meat shortage would finally develop. But that would simply mean belt-tightening for Soviet citizens -a familiar enough deprivation under Communist rule. If the embargo were sustained for a long period, more severe suffering could occur. But Carter has always been reluctant to use food as that direct a weapon. In his speech he even went out of his way, rather lamely, to say that the grain he is cutting off is used to feed livestock, not people. The livestock would, of course, feed people...
...Soviet military action in Afghanistan marks a new stage in Soviet assertiveness. It is a watershed event-the first time since 1945 that Soviet armed forces have been used to impose direct Soviet will on a foreign country not previously under Soviet control. The imposition of Soviet control over Afghanistan, if it is accomplished, poses a direct security threat to Iran and Pakistan, countries in a region of vital importance...
Other Soviet units moved east from conquered Kabul toward the Khyber Pass and into Paktia province, a center of the Muslim insurgence. The Soviet command post is at Termez, where they have built a satellite communications station to give them a direct link to Moscow. The Soviets now have two airborne divisions and two motorized infantry divisions in Afghanistan, plus support troops, to bring their total strength...
...conventions of the historical art form-the assault on the U.S. embassy and the U.S.I.A. library, Uncle Sam burning in effigy, YANKEE GO HOME on the compound walls, the vilification of the "paper tiger"-have become so habitual as to represent a rich tradition. Anti-Americanism has grown in direct proportion to American influence in the world. For Americans now to become so agitated about anti-Americanism bespeaks not strength but skittishness, a faintly disagreeable tendency to ask: "Why are they picking on us? Why don't they pick on the Russians...
North Korea's premier Li Jong Ok sent an official letter to Sin Hyong Hwak, the South Korean premier, Saturday requesting a "direct meeting with you for an unreserved exchange of views...