Word: according
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...being questioned, especially by key U.S. Senators concerned about the loss of two important CIA listening posts in northern Iran. Such worries are making verification a major issue in the SALT II debate even before the treaty has been fully negotiated. Though clearly in its final stages, the accord remains blocked by a few issues that U.S. and Soviet diplomats hope to resolve in the next few days...
When SALT will be sent to the Senate is unclear, despite strong indications that the U.S.-Soviet talks are nearly concluded. After a series of meetings in Washington last week with Secretary of State Cyrus Vance, Soviet Ambassador Anatoli Dobrynin said that an accord was "closer, ever closer, very close." Administration officials were quick to add that the remaining differences could take some time to resolve. The President, for one, was taking no bets on when the talks would end. Said he at a press conference: "After many mistakes, I have promised the public that I would not predict...
Almost all the developing nations at first refused to initial the accord, complaining that it would benefit them less than it would the industrial world. Unless they do sign, the liberalizations will not apply to them. Still the other delegates were relieved and exhilarated. Said Alonzo McDonald, who patiently handled the day-to-day negotiations for the U.S.: "The agreement is the most comprehensive and significant result produced by any trade negotiations up to this time...
...20th year. By today's matrimonial standards Wills is practically a radical. His ideas on love and the governing of men are also a departure from the customary lines. Wills' starting point is St. Augustine: "A people is a gathering of many rational individuals united by accord on loved things held in common." What rational individuals love best is peace. It is, says Wills, "the very soul of society" and "the gift of the politicians...
Even as Administration spokesmen took to the hustings, there was a sense that the more than six years of negotiations on the accord might finally be drawing to a close. Secretary of State Cyrus Vance was awaiting a Soviet reply to U.S. proposals on the last issues blocking agreement...