Word: accordance
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...promise, as Archibald MacLeish put it, a promise to the colonists, to their descendants and to the world at large. The promise was contained in the Declaration of Independence: that people could govern themselves; that they could live in both freedom and equality; and that they would act in accord with reason-reason being a divine attribute, God's light...
...landing of the two intervening nights. At issue is a longstanding and sensitive dispute over who must decide whether or not to land. With their own lives at stake, as well as those of their passengers, pilots have long insisted on final authority over such decisions. Current federal regulations accord them that right. At each airport the Federal Aviation Administration's tower chief has the responsibility for closing specific runways or the entire field. Controllers are required to advise pilots of adverse conditions but cannot order them to seek another airfield. The Kennedy crash makes plain the need...
SALT. Limiting strategic arms remains the elusive goal of the SALT talks. At the semiweekly plenary sessions, the American and Soviet negotiating teams will be trying once again to hone an accord from the general guidelines adopted by Ford and Soviet Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev at their Vladivostok summit last November. There the two leaders agreed to limit their nations' arsenals to 2,400 strategic weapons each, of which 1,320 could be armed with multiple warheads, or MIRVs (multiple independently targeted re-entry vehicles...
...negotiators at Geneva are under pressure to break the impasse in order to have a SALT II agreement ready for signature when Brezhnev visits Washington later this year. A new treaty will supersede the 1972 SALT I accord, which temporarily froze the total number of strategic missiles but gave the Soviets an advantage in the absolute number of missiles. That agreement was made, despite strong Pentagon opposition, to offset the commanding MIRV lead the U.S. then enjoyed. SALT II will, among other things, limit the U.S. and U.S.S.R. to one anti-ballistic missile site each, instead of the two ABMs...
Above all, there is no accord on the gut issue of how high or how low prices should be stabilized under any new agreements. Many developing nations, for example, want to "index" raw materials prices to the trend of world prices for all kinds of goods as a method of transferring wealth from rich countries to poor lands. The U.S. and most other industrial nations fear that indexing would touch off a permanent runaway inflation that would hurt the whole world. For that matter, there is not even agreement within the Administration on how conciliatory U.S. policy should be. Kissinger...