Word: chip
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...House really intends to do about Star Wars has been clouded by the infighting and whispering campaigns that have engulfed Foggy Bottom and the Pentagon since Gromyko and Schultz announced they would meet last September. Is it supposed to protect cities--or just missile silos? Is it a bargaining chip--or will the Administration agree to forgo the multi-billion project at the bargaining table...
State Department moderates are advocating a giant swap with the Soviets. They would use Star Wars as a bargaining chip, offering to shelve it in return for deep cuts in the Soviets' heavy land-based missiles. They maintain that the U.S. cannot hope to build a defense that would knock out every Soviet missile before it struck the U.S. The Soviets, they fear, would simply rush to build more and more sophisticated missiles to saturate U.S. defenses, pushing the arms race into a volatile new phase. For the moment, the superpowers have informally agreed to practice "interim restraint" while groping...
Corporate investors in South Africa include most of the U.S. blue-chip giants. Among those singled out by protesters: Citicorp, which has in the past lent money to the Pretoria government; Mobil Oil, which has invested about $426 million and sells its products to the government's procurement office; and IBM, whose computers are used by the country's bureaucracy. Business spokesmen argue that U.S. firms provide jobs for blacks in South Africa, work quietly to break down racial barriers and would be replaced by companies with a lower social consciousness if they pulled out. Indeed, many...
...father is as famous for his penchant for privacy as for his fiction, but when it comes to his career Matt Salinger, 24, the son of Catcher in the Rye Author J.D., is no chip off the writer's block. "My father sees his job as writing. Whether anybody reads his stories, his job is writing them. I see my job as acting." But young Salinger hopes somebody comes to see him in Dancing in the End Zone, which just started rehearsals and will open in January. It will be his Broadway debut, following some off-Broadway...
...MIRVS). But this does not mean that development of a defensive system should be banned independently of what is done about nuclear weapons in general. The Soviets seem genuinely afraid of a technological race with the U.S. in space defense. This fear should be used as a major bargaining chip...