Word: reactional
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...composed in the dreamland of a think tank, and it programs, VISTA for domestic projects and the Peace Corps for foreign. About 9600 people participate in those projects now, with no signs of an immediate increase in sight. The authors surely know this, but they presumably feared the reaction of young people to what they really wanted: compulsory service...
...prepares us to meet unforeseen challenges. By protesting against increased military spending and against registration, the activists are saying, however, that any solution to foreign problems--no matter how damaging to the American economy or its allies--is preferable to even the consideration of increasing our military potential. That reaction is much too hasty. It is the selfish gesture of people who understandably do not want to fight, but do not realize that no one has asked them...
...initial Soviet reaction also involved sticks. Said Soviet newspaper Izvestia: "The Carter Doctrine is an attempt to revive President Theodore Roosevelt's 'big stick' policy. [It portends a] rapid and global interference with a view to suppressing the national liberation movement of the peoples and protecting the colonial interests of the dollar empire...
...nation for the boycott movement is West Germany, which normally would enter a strong team in Moscow. Bonn officials clearly would like their athletes to compete but were nervously watching world reaction to Carter's drive. Having criticized Carter so long for not dealing more sternly with the Kremlin, they found it uncomfortable to oppose his tough stance...
...physicist had called upon the United Nations and the U.S.S.R. to arrange for the withdrawal of Soviet troops from Afghanistan. In a statement to foreign journalists, Sakharov said: "The situation is so tragic, dramatic and dangerous that we must all concentrate on how to prevent a chain reaction that could have unpredictable consequences for mankind in this nuclear age." After it became evident that the Soviets had no intention of withdrawing their troops, Sakharov urged all nations to boycott the Olympic Games in Moscow...