Word: outflank
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Putin's second swing through Europe in as many weeks, for example, forms part of an effort to outflank Washington in the showdown over missile defense. Where Boris Yeltsin may have contented himself to growl and grumble over a U.S. military initiative deemed inimical to Russian interests, Putin is fighting back vigorously and raising a few eyebrows in Washington. Indeed, he's managed to turn some key European NATO members against Washington's proposed National Missile Defense system by convincing them it could spark a dangerous new arms race; now he plans to head for North Korea next month, partly...
...More important, the Pentagon will argue, the system mooted by Putin can't be built quickly enough - it would take 10 years rather than the five envisaged by Washington to cope with the emergence of a potential North Korean threat." Then again, Putin's primary objective may be to outflank Washington's efforts to build an umbrella system Russia fears may eventually neutralize its own nuclear deterrent, thereby destabilizing the nuclear balance - a prospect that has Western Europe scared that Washington's plan could reignite the arms race. "It's a Russian tradition in arms control politics to do whatever...
...Senator lost no time christening his new McCain Majority and taking it out for a drive. McCain doesn't think he has to outflank Bush on the right; he just has to seem acceptably pro-life and pro-gun and anti-Big Government. In an ad taped last week he announced that he was a "proud Reagan Republican" who was looking forward to tearing up the "44,000-page tax code." And in private, members of the McCain team said they planned to spend more than Bush on ads in New York, California and Ohio...
...Cold War (which often put it in the Soviet camp, diplomatically) was underscored by the socialist orientation of most of its governments since independence. Relations particularly deteriorated in the early '70s, after the Nixon administration aligned Washington closely with India's archrival, Pakistan, as part of its efforts to outflank the Soviets and improve ties with China (which had a long-running border dispute with India). Pakistan's importance as a Washington ally grew after 1980, when the country became the staging ground for U.S. efforts to assist Afghan resistance fighters against the Soviet invaders...