Word: accords
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...SALT II has taken much longer than U.S. negotiators had anticipated when the talks began in late 1972. By 1976 so much progress seemed to have been made that Secretary of State Henry Kissinger insisted that the accord was 95% finished, a claim repeated since then by a number of officials. Yet that last 5% always seems just beyond reach...
...Chinese code word for Soviet expansionism. Otherwise, Moscow took a wait-and-see attitude toward the U.S. Noting that Carter had assured the U.S.S.R. that the China deal would not harm Soviet interests, Pravda said, "This is a very important statement, and time will show if these words accord with practical deeds and political actions." Thus the Kremlin seemed to have no intention of letting U.S.-China policy get in the way of a SALT agreement or a summit conference between Carter and Brezhnev...
...Administration finishes negotiating SALT II with Moscow, it must start bargaining with the U.S. Senate, where a two-thirds vote is required for treaty ratification. Experts estimate that odds today are no better than even that SALT II will pass. SALT'S critics argue that although the accord would grant both sides an equal number of strategic systems, the U.S. would be prevented from compensating for the overwhelming Soviet advantage in rocket size and power. But the chances of Senate approval will almost certainly improve as the White House begins lobbying for the treaty. To allay some critics...
...SALT II agreement is now "more than 95 per cent complete" Warnke said, but he warned that "some American politicians may attempt to secure the passage of their favorite programs as the price for their support" of the accord, and the recent Soviet dispatch of 16 Mig-23 aircraft to Cuba indicates "there are also some in the Politburo who want to be bought-off as a precondition" to accepting the agreement, Warnke said...
...general, candidates seemed to win on the basis of local issues and services they had or had not provided. For all the talk of an anti-incumbent year, not too many were turned out of office. Most Representatives who left Congress quit of their own accord. Of 377 incumbents running for re-election to the House, only 19 lost their seats...