Word: bushing
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UNITED NATIONS--Declaring the world "has lived too long in the shadow of chemical warfare," President Bush offered yesterday to slash U. S. stocks of such weapons more than 80 percent, provided the Soviet Union reduces to an equal level...
...Bush's proposal, in his first speech to the United Nations General Assembly as president, was designed to spur a 40-nation conference in Geneva to ban chemical weapons entirely within 10 years...
...Bush noted progress on those issues and agreements on other matters--during talks last weekend between Secretary of State James A. Baker III and Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard A. Shevardnadze--as well as a decision to hold a summit meeting with Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev by early next summer...
...together--beginning today--to rid the earth of this scourge," Bush said in his comments on chemical weapons...
...Baker announced from the outset that he intended to be the President's man at State and not State's man at the White House. If U.S. foreign policy lacks vision, the shortcoming may stem less from Baker than from Bush, who reacts better than he anticipates...