Word: threateningly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Organizations. Previously endorsed by 250 influential Israelis, the statement criticized "extremists" within the Israeli government who "distort Zionism and threaten its realization." Implicitly opposing the Begin policy of building more Jewish settlements in the West Bank, the statement also condemned those who "advance the vicious cycle of extremism and violence" and concluded that "their way endangers and isolates Israel." The statement, in the view of Brandeis University Professor Leonard Fein, was "a vote of no confidence in the present Israeli government by a significant segment of the American Jewish leadership...
...Australian Opens in the same year. Don Budge, Maureen Connolly and Margaret Court won the grand slam once. "Though tennis was first played by ecclesiastical students in the 15th century, the game quickly became so identified with French royalty that Shakespeare contrived for a British king to threaten the French crown with a tennis metaphor. In Henry V, King Henry warns the French Ambassador: "When he have match'd our rackets to these balls,/ We will in France, by God's grace, play a set/ Shall strike his father's crown into the hazard/ Tell him he hath made...
...Peking, Soviets appear somewhat more sanguine about their ability to contain what some still call "the yellow peril" than they did a decade ago. Says Alexander Yakovlev, a leading Sinologist at Moscow's Institute for the Study of the Far East: "China does not have the military strength to threaten world peace on its own, and even the military and economic aid of the U.S. and other Western countries will not make a big difference...
...moment, however, there are no signs that any unrest is getting out of control, nor would a fresh outbreak of trouble necessarily threaten to break up the empire. In Eastern Europe the presence of 31 divisions of Soviet troops discourages excessive independence or disorder, such as the food-price riots that rocked Poland in 1970. There are also garrisons outside the capitals of the Central Asian republics. The soldiers stationed there, in the main, are from other parts of the country rather than local boys; if they were ever ordered to quash an uprising, they would not be firing...
...levels that seem justified by the legitimate need to defend itself; second, it has begun in recent years brazenly and disruptively to project its power into the Third World; and third, Soviet encroachments in mineral-rich Africa, the oil-rich Middle East and the sea lanes of the Pacific threaten the vital economic interests of the Western democracies and Japan. The Soviet Union is seen as exploiting?if not actually instigating?new problems for the capitalist world. "The Soviet tendency in recent years to take advantage of targets of opportunity?incrementally, deliberately, persistently?raises questions in Congress and among...