Word: interdict
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...official did, however, ask for a general expression of Administration support for the venture and assistance in the aftermath of the coup. Specifically, he wanted the U.S. to give quick diplomatic recognition to Gaddafi's successor. He also sought assurances that the U.S. would be prepared to interdict Libyan harbors and airfields in the event of a move by Moscow on Libya to protect the vast supply of Soviet weapons in the country...
Moving about many areas of the countryside with relative freedom, the guerrillas interdict roads and harass army supply and communications links. Bands of insurgents occupy villages and occasionally even a sizable town for a few days at a time. When superior government forces arrive, the guerrillas fade away. When the army units move on, the guerrillas are apt to return shortly thereafter. In Chalatenango department, such hit-and-run tactics have forced army troops to stay close to their barracks. In Morazan department, the insurgents control most of the countryside. Last week TIME Correspondent James Willwerth traveled to Morazan...
...other side's favor in land forces. But we must have clear superiority in naval forces. By definition, we would lose a standoff with the Soviet navy." The mission of the U.S. Navy is to keep sea lanes open, while that of the Soviet navy might be to interdict those lanes in a conflict. The American mission is more difficult and requires more force...
...evidence that the guerrillas were obtaining large quantities of sophisticated weapons from a number of sources, including Middle Eastern and East European countries as well as nearby Cuba and Nicaragua. Nicaragua appeared to be serving as the transit point for these arms. In order to "help El Salvador interdict the supply of military equipment coming in from the outside," as U.S. Ambassador Robert White put it, Washington resumed the modest $5 million military aid program that had been suspended since the murders of three American nuns and a lay worker by right-wing death squads a month...
...with the triple tiara that Popes John Paul I and John Paul II rejected, to let men know precisely who is running the church. When police in Spain murder priests under the approving eyes of Cabinet ministers, Francesco revives medieval precedent and threatens to place the entire country under interdict unless the culprits are punished. When a cabal of Cardinals plots to depose him, he dispatches them into exile with all the brutal efficiency of a Nixonian Saturday Night Massacre. "Declan, Declan," warns a purged friend on another occasion, "because you love no one, you think you love...