Word: triggers
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...that his group might not be able to pursue a "policy of moderation" much longer. If they cannot, the Lebanese right and the P.L.O. may become locked into such vicious fighting that Syria might feel compelled to intervene militarily on behalf of the Palestinians. This in turn could well trigger an armed response from Israel, thus threatening to ignite a new general war in the Middle East...
...Today show and heard Moynihan describing it to Barbara Walters as a major American initiative. In a widely publicized outburst last November, Britain's Ambassador Ivor Richard compared Moynihan (without actually naming him) variously to a trigger-happy Wyatt Earp, a vengeful Savonarola and a demented King Lear "raging amidst the storm on the blasted heath." Another Western delegate claims that "never in my U.N. experience have I seen such open criticism of an American ambassador by my colleagues...
Mount Baker first began to stir from its long sleep last March, when unusual amounts of steam or smoke began rising from the Sherman Crater, a 1,600-ft.-wide depression left just below the summit by an earlier eruption. Fearful that the steam could melt snow and trigger giant mudslides, the Forest Service closed the shoreline of Baker Lake, shut down several nearby campgrounds, and put much of the mountain off limits...
...drastic a revision of Resolutions 242 and 338, however, will almost certainly trigger a U.S. veto. "We would strongly oppose any attempt to change them," Secretary of State Henry Kissinger warned last week. The principal U.S. objective at the debate is to prevent the Security Council from becoming the main forum for future Middle East peace efforts. Washington is determined either to maintain the step-by-step diplomatic approach that so far has achieved two Israeli-Egyptian Sinai accords and one Israeli-Syrian agreement or to return to the Geneva Conference, jointly sponsored by the U.S. and the Soviet Union...
Tests of Devotion. Her mother's death was so shattering that it sent her, at 13, into the first of a series of mental breakdowns that were to haunt her throughout her life and trigger her suicide at 59. These episodes left blanks in her correspondence, except when she made a diffident reference ("my usual disease, in the head you know") or when, as in a letter to Vanessa, the illness itself shadowed her prose: "All the devils came out-hairy black ones. To be 29 and unmarried-to be a failure-childless-insane too, no writer...