Word: accords
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...designed to make the product look better, or designed to hide the actual true meaning behind the words. But the main thrust of what they want to say is that it is essential to do everything possible to ward off, even to prevent, the slightest opportunity of reaching any accord with the Soviets on space-weapons bans or on the ban on nuclear testing. Now from these pronouncements made by Tower it appears that nothing depends on whatever the Soviet Union does at the talks in Geneva or in the military field. The U.S. will still go on developing antisatellite...
...still worse than the present one, this goal will be all the harder to achieve, if it is possible at all. Then a process might be launched that would be simply impossible even to conceive of today. That is why we are calling upon the U.S. to reach an accord with us on the basis of equal security, to reach an accord first and foremost on all three components, the most dangerous strategic offensive arms, medium-range arms and space weapons...
...endeavored in my replies to your (written) questions to be very sincere and very frank in the hope that this will not be treated as "one more propaganda exercise by Moscow." I endeavored to say that at present, even today, it is very hard indeed to reach accord, to come to terms. There are so many accretions, so many exacerbations, such a lack of confidence, that it is even hard to begin moving toward each other. But if we were to come in the future to this new phase, and to open up a new stage in the military sphere...
...next day Longowal was cremated in his native village with full state honors. The funeral procession included mourners from every faith and high government officials. Conspicuously absent were members of the radical faction of the Akali Dal. The extremists had denounced Longowal as a "traitor" for signing the accord, which will give more economic and political power to Sikhs in the state. But many extremists say they will settle for nothing less than an independent Sikh nation...
...Syrian troops stationed mostly in the eastern part of Lebanon. President Hafez Assad sought to extend that influence last month when Lebanese Muslim leaders, meeting in Damascus, drew up a 16-point plan that would increase their political power. Lebanese Christian politicians predictably denounced the Damascus accord, and new bickering broke out between them and Druze Chieftain Walid Jumblatt and Shi'ite Amal Leader Nabih Berri. On Aug. 14 a car bomb exploded in a northern Christian enclave. Three days later an even bigger explosive device killed 55 in a suburb of predominantly Christian East Beirut. The Christian radio station...