Word: accesses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nuclear weapons must be reached by balancing all relevant factors. The moral, political, and propaganda implications of testing are important, and they have been debated vigorously by the public in recent years. However, the decision also must be based on a detailed technical and scientific understanding of nuclear weapons, access to intelligence reports and analysis of the enemy's developments, and a complete knowledge of our own stage of developments. For security reasons, most of this information is classified and is available only to the President, his advisors on national security, and experts from both parties in the Congress. Only...
What bothered Adenauer most was the fear that Communist East Germany would win a measure of "recognition" from a 13-nation "access authority"-including neutral Austria, Sweden and Switzerland-that the U.S. has suggested might control the land and air corridors to Berlin. Said Adenauer: "The whole scheme is unworkable. The three neutrals would have to make decisions. If one asks these states, 'Will you do this?', I believe they will...
Receptive & Expressive. Beyond a stroke victim's physical difficulties there is another more variable, less understood, and-until recently-more neglected problem: language disability. The technical name, aphasia, covers far more than its literal meaning, "loss of speech." Usually, neither innate intelligence nor accumulated knowledge is destroyed, but access to each is cut off from the patient by a breakdown in his communications system. This breakdown may damage the receptive (reading and listening) functions, or the expressive (speaking, gesturing, writing), or both, in infinitely various combinations...
Such a settlement, if it happens, will probably involve some of the devices that the U.S. cautiously broached to its allies three weeks ago: 1) a 13-nation authority to control access on the road, rail, canal and air routes to Berlin; 2) a nonaggression pledge between NATO and the Warsaw Pact nations; 3) a joint promise to keep atomic weapons out of the hands of nations not now possessing them; 4) joint committees with East and West German members to discuss mutual problems...
...Iraq, running along the mountaintops from southern Turkey to the Persian Gulf; for this state he demands minority rights similar to those enjoyed "by minorities in such liberated countries as Switzerland, Yugoslavia, India and Czechoslovakia." The Russians are delighted to back Barzani's plan, which would give them access to the Middle Eastern Arab states and bring them closer to the Mediterranean...