Word: bushes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...coolness and caution, the U.S. and the Soviet Union suddenly seem consumed by arms-control fever. First, Secretary of State James Baker and Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze ended their tete-a-tete in the Tetons by announcing plans for a spring summit. A few days later, George Bush and Shevardnadze were at the United Nations competing to see who could get rid of chemical weapons faster...
CHEMICAL WEAPONS. Bush offered to destroy 80% of the 30,000-ton U.S. arsenal in eight years if the Soviets reduce their 50,000-ton stockpile to the same level. Shevardnadze upped the ante by proposing that the superpowers unilaterally wipe out their stocks and cease all chemical-weapons production...
...Congress has already ordered the President to destroy by 1997 even more of the American stockpile than he proposed. Moreover, by making the complete elimination of chemical weapons contingent on the assent of 20 nations deemed capable of producing them, Bush gave veto power to mavericks like Iraq and Libya. Until such an agreement is reached, the U.S. insists on modernizing its supply with new binary nerve-gas weapons -- a position that the Soviets have termed unacceptable...
...seems perplexed over arms control, fearful of both a domestic right-wing assault on its policies and of sliding down the slippery slope of psychological disarmament. Defense Secretary Dick Cheney, for one, is determined to stonewall arms treaties until congressional funding of his defense budget is ensured. And although Bush allowed last week that a strategic-arms treaty could be achieved by next year's summit, key White House aides seem inclined to dismiss START as a bothersome holdover from the Reagan Administration...
President Bush's version of the "choice" idea focuses on two major plans: magnet schools, which attract students by developing specialties in areas like drama and science; and open enrollment, which permits parents to move their children from schools they do not like to ones they...