Word: conceptions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...security of the U.S." Haig and Cuban Vice President Carlos Rafael Rodriguez met secretly last November in Mexico City, and Haig indicated in his Senate testimony last week that there have been other secret discussions. Said the Secretary: "I can assure you the President has never rejected the concept of exploring every conceivable means possible. Discussions have involved all the contributors to the crisis, Cuba and the Soviet Union as well...
...agenda item is the Comprehensive Programme of Disarmament. A Working Group of the Disarmament Commission, which was established by the U.N. in 1978, is working to complete this program. The Chairman is Ambassador Garcia Robles of Mexico, who recently told the General Assembly that the present concept is for a four-stage Program with a five-year duration for each stage...
Kissinger notes that his concept of "linkage"-insisting that the Soviets exercise restraint in international conduct in return for trade arrangements or technology exchanges-had long been decried as "an unworkable relic of the cold war." Now detractors of linkage not only adopted the theory, "they went us one better." Says Kissinger: "They linked most-favored-nation status for the Soviet Union not only with Soviet foreign-policy conduct but with Soviet emigration practices. During Nixon's first term we had, by quiet diplomacy, raised Jewish emigration from 400 a year...
...their society. If peace is equated simply with the absence of war, if the yearning for peace is not allied with a sense of justice, it can become an abject pacifism that turns the world over to the most ruthless. To build peace on reciprocal restraint; to suffuse our concept of order with our country's commitment to freedom; to strive for peace without abdication and for order without unnecessary confrontation-therein resides the ultimate test of American statesmanship...
...Tenn.) officially broke ranks, proposing a surcharge on income taxes; the next day Senate Budget Committee Chairman Peter J. Domenici (R-N.M.) called for defense spending cuts. At the same time, an overwhelming majority of state executives, headed by Republican Richard Snelling of Vermont pointedly stressed that their "concept of federalism differs in most significant details" from Reagan...