Asia-Pacific: US security creates insecurity. (Currents).Direct intervention A procedure used in a lawsuit by which the court allows a third person who was not originally a party to the suit to become a party, by joining with either the plaintiff or the defendant. in the political and military frameworks of other countries has been the chosen weapon of US foreign policy for over a century. The 'war on terror' has enabled President Bush to carry this intervention to new heights. Rather than put its own troops in the firing line, the US is bolstering the military forces in and around countries friendly to it. Regional insecurity Insecurity Inseparability (See FRIENDSHIP.) Insolence (See ARROGANCE.) Hamlet introspective, vacillating Prince of Denmark. [Br. Lit.: Hamlet] Linus cartoon character who is lost without his security blanket. across Asia and the Pacific is the result, as countries realign re·a·lign tr.v. re·a·ligned, re·a·lign·ing, re·a·ligns 1. To put back into proper order or alignment. 2. To make new groupings of or working arrangements between. -- and adjust their nuclear capabilities. Here is a special NI assessment of the fallout fallout, minute particles of radioactive material produced by nuclear explosions (see atomic bomb; hydrogen bomb; Chernobyl) or by discharge from nuclear-power or atomic installations and scattered throughout the earth's atmosphere by winds and convection currents. . |
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