Word: accords
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most worrisome issues is the new Panama Canal treaty, on which the Senate began hearings last week. To beat the drum for the Panama accord, Carter invited groups of Senators to breakfast-on folding chairs in a windowless White House conference room -and lectured them. Some victims of the sessions complained that other Presidents would have invited them to an official White House dining room and asked for their views, instead of preaching to them...
...from the energy bill filibuster, and knowing that the crucial treaty votes will not come until early next year, attended only sporadically. Nonetheless, in this surprisingly subdued setting, the nation's highest ranking military officers last week voiced the Carter Administration's best political argument for the accord: they insisted that ratification would ease their task of guarding the national security...
Clearly, the regulations did not "thoroughly frustrate" energy development but merely assured that such development proceeded in accord with the need for protecting lands from the ravages of surface mining. What's more, Mobil's claim to environmental altruism is dubious. The regulations is question were established in the first place only because companies like Mobil had ignored environmental concerns and left strip-mined areas looking like lunar wastelands. In any case, the position itself was clear: "At a time when the public is being asked to make sacrifices to help allay America's energy crisis, shouldn't the government...
Neither side in the abortion debate can claim to have positive knowledge of whether or not abortion constitutes the taking of a life. Yet a real biological possibility exists that this is the case. Given this possibility, the government must accord the fetus the same rights it grants the average criminal suspect: the assumption that it is innocent, until proven guilty, of being an "expendable" member of society. Until proof exists to the contrary, any "moral justification" for abortion simply does not exist...
...longer be bound by the ceilings on offensive, strategic weapons to which they agreed five years ago. Despite Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko's meetings in Washington last week with President Jimmy Carter and Secretary of State Cyrus Vance, there is virtually no chance that a new arms accord can be reached before the deadline...