Word: accords
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...recent letter signed by 600 Harvard students and sent to Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D-Mass.), the students argued that this refusal violates the Final Act of the 1975 Helsinki Accord, which requires that such applications be handled in a "positive and humanitarian spirit with special attention being given to requests of an urgent character...
Machel, the country's leader since it won independence from Portugal in 1975, had almost personally been holding Mozambique together in recent years. Once a doctrinaire Marxist, he showed more flexibility as his troubles built up. He signed an accord in 1984 with South Africa under which Mozambique promised to expel African National Congress guerrillas, who are fighting Pretoria, in return for South Africa's pledge to stop supporting Renamo. Lately Machel had strayed from Communist orthodoxy and turned to the West for new investment...
Under the terms of the tentative accord, the Soviets agreed to retire within five years a significant portion of their large, hydra-headed ICBMs, including their notorious "heavy" SS-18s. Those are the most worrisome of the missiles in their arsenal, since they have the combination of accuracy, speed and destructive capability to carry out a sneak attack. Numerical reductions alone do not necessarily strengthen the nuclear peace. What is important about the outcome at Reykjavik is not so much the dramatic-sounding goal of a 50% cut across the board, which would probably prove illusory in a final agreement...
...hope of both leaders is that in Iceland they can agree on the general outlines for an accord that would drastically reduce INF (intermediate-range nuclear forces) missiles and warheads. Diplomats would then try to put a pact in shape for the leaders to sign if and when they eventually meet in the U.S. That does seem possible; negotiators in Geneva have come close to accord on the basic numbers. But an INF pact is far from assured. Though Moscow no longer insists that one be linked to a reduction on long-range strategic weapons and a ban on space...
...handed Reagan a personal letter from Gorbachev replying to arms- control proposals the President had made in July. The Soviet Foreign Minister also hinted at further concessions toward an INF agreement. He and Shultz wound up their meetings expressing unexpected optimism about prospects for a summit and an INF accord -- if only the Daniloff issue could somehow be resolved...