Word: agreement
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Sandinistas may want to hold the talks early in an effort to reach an agreement in time to head off approval of more U.S. aid for the Contras. The direct talks were not scheduled to open in San Jose until one day after President Reagan is expected to ask Congress for more Contra...
...means a risk-free choice," Hamilton said, but recalled the plea of Costa Rican President Oscar Arias, author of the peace plan, that Congress "take a risk for peace." The five-nation peace agreement was signed...
...repeat her role in New York. Actors' Equity objected to her being cast in the Broadway production, rather than an American actress, on the ground that Brightman was not an international star. Lloyd Webber was furious. His implied threat of no-Sarah, no-Phantom eventually prevailed, but under an agreement with the union, Brightman will play Christine for only six months. To preserve her voice, she will appear in six of the eight weekly performances; American Patti Cohenour will sing the other two. (Crawford's contract is for nine months and all eight performances.) Brightman was philosophical about the compromise...
...Gorbachev's proposal, and the reaction it stirred in Washington, served to underscore the role that surveillance technology plays in arms control. Glasnost is nice, but the success of an agreement like the new ban on intermediate-range nuclear weapons depends upon electronic eyes and ears that make sure both sides keep the deal. "Verification has always defined the outer frontiers of what we can achieve in arms control," says Kenneth Adelman, former director of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency and a prominent adviser to President Reagan. "We can control effectively only what we can verify...
...DETECTORS. The U.S. has set up a worldwide network of seismic detectors, like those used to measure earthquakes, that can gauge the explosive force of large underground nuclear tests in the Soviet Union. Later this month an American science team will travel to Moscow to begin working out an agreement under which the U.S. could install a more accurate detection , device near the test sites. The new system, called Corrtex, would allow the U.S. to measure nuclear blasts that are too small to be clearly identified from seismic data alone...