Word: commitement
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Some of the U.S. officials who came to Geneva with Reagan had hoped the final document would include another reaffirmation, that of the antiballistic-missile (ABM) treaty of 1972. Advocates of arms control within the Administration want to seize every opportunity to commit the U.S. to keeping SDI within the bounds of that treaty. Doing so, they hope, might allay Soviet concerns and induce concessions. Why was there no mention of the ABM treaty in the joint statement...
...Philadelphia Daily News Columnist Chuck Stone assigned at least some of the blame to city hall, which is still shaken by last May's bombing of the headquarters of the radical group Move that ultimately engulfed several city blocks in flames. Declared Stone: "When you have the city committing the most violent act you can commit, it legitimizes the violence in other people's thinking...
...years. Japanese retailers viewed Gillette's move as arrogant, and the firm was unable to sell its products on its own. Says Jay Gwynne, president of the consumer health-products division of Warner-Lambert, which owns Schick: "To try to eliminate the Japanese middleman is the quickest way to commit suicide." Schick's single-blade stainless-steel razor was judged superior to Feather's double-blade carbon one, and Schick's razor became the country's best seller...
Though many questions remained unanswered, Austrian authorities concluded from the interrogation that the terrorists had not intended to commit suicide at the Vienna airport, as the police had first assumed, but instead were plotting a grand spectacle of murder and revenge. They were evidently hoping to take a number of people at the airport hostage, commandeer an El Al jetliner and order it flown to Tel Aviv where, along with an El Al plane seized simultaneously by their accomplices in Rome, they would destroy the aircraft and everyone on board. The action was to have been in retaliation...
...surviving terrorist from the Rome attack, who gave his name as Mohammed Sharam, 19. Sica then flew to Vienna to compare notes with investigators there. He is next expected to make a quick trip to Brussels, where police last week arrested two Arabs and charged them with conspiracy to commit a crime. Also arrested was their host, a Belgian video store owner in the provincial town of Hasselt, in whose possession police found 40 lbs. of explosives. The Belgian had been previously convicted on charges of illegal arms possession. The disclosure seemed to support suspicions by law-enforcement officials that...