Word: breakthrough
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Jimmy Carter missed Smith's deadline by two years. SALT II was not signed until 1979, and it has never been ratified. Still, the ABM treaty has remained in effect, and Reagan was careful to say last week that his pursuit of a breakthrough in defensive technology would be "consistent with our obligations under the ABM treaty." Making good on that assurance will be tricky, since Article V of the treaty prohibits not just deployment but development of space-based ABMS, as well as more down-to-earth methods...
...will lift the country out of its worst slump since World War II. At the same time, he must thread his way through a political minefield in supporting NATO's 1979 decision to install 572 U.S. cruise and Pershing II missiles in Western Europe. Unless there is a breakthrough in U.S.-Soviet arms negotiations in Geneva, the installation is to start at the end of this year...
...would no longer defend her in the contempt-citation suit. Officials there explained that it would be a conflict of interest to act as her lawyer at the same time that it was investigating charges of mismanagement at the agency. Responded Burford archly: "I think we just made a breakthrough. Now maybe we can get some good legal advice over here for a change...
...West European allies, the outcome of the election was bound to be greeted with a palpable sense of relief, if only because Kohl unequivocally supports NATO's 1979 decision to install U.S. cruise and Pershing II missiles at the end of this year unless there is a breakthrough in U.S.-Soviet arms negotiations in Geneva. A victory by the Social Democrats under Vogel, it had been feared, might have brought into government in Bonn the currents of pacifism now churning in West German society...
...Iran's oil-rich Khuzistan province. It was the beginning of yet another major effort to drive enemy forces from Iranian soil, seize Iraqi territory in return, and ultimately bring down the regime of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. Although the offensive apparently failed to score any immediate breakthrough, it was clear that another grim and bloody chapter in the 2½-year-old Persian Gulf war was in the making...