Word: beginnings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...thick with silence. Schoolchildren who a moment ago were babbling and twitching like a flock of noisy starlings now sit jammed in their seats, motionless, their young eyes straining to see. Suddenly the ebony hemisphere above them gleams with fire: the planets, their satellites and some 4,000 stars begin marching across the heavens toward day break. The audience sucks in its breath. A child grabs the arm of the teacher next to her as she stares at the sky. For it really seems that the skin of the dome has been silently folded back to reveal the universe. There...
...Saturday morning the mood changed abruptly. Gromyko suddenly began disputing points that seemed minor and bringing up issues that Vance thought had been settled. Gromyko raised two key questions about the cruise missile, the highly accurate drone that the Pentagon is counting on to begin providing much of the nation's strategic strength in the 1980s. The Soviets insisted that cruise missiles outfitted with multiple warheads be formally banned until 1985, or for the duration of the SALT II treaty. Although this had come up in previous rounds of the arms talks, Vance thought that the matter had been...
...lead over the U.S.S.R., the Kremlin would like the protocol to last as long as possible. For the same reason, Washington wants to keep it short. While both sides have agreed that the protocol will run for three years, they cannot agree on when the three-year period should begin. The Soviets argue that the protocol should run for three years from the date SALT II is ratified, i.e., until, presumably, some time in 1982. The U.S. argues that when it first proposed this protocol, it expected that the treaty would be signed in 1977, and so the protocol would...
LATIN AMERICA. On Valentine's Day, Carter will hold talks in Mexico City with President José López Portillo. His aim: to begin work on an agreement for the U.S. to purchase Mexico's oil and natural gas, and to ease the strains caused by the flow of illegal immigrants into the U.S. In Nicaragua, meanwhile, months of patient U.S. diplomacy were thrown into question when President Anastasio Somoza Debayle last week rejected a U .S. proposal for internationally supervised elections aimed at ending civil strife over his rule...
Some police officers were not so non-committal. One warned us not to stick around after 7 p.m. when he thought most of the trouble would begin, another said he expected to be home by 6 p.m. and a third expressed the general sentiment that he wished none of this was happening in the first place, that after all this was New Year...