Word: control
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...such opportunity would be the Brussels meeting, and as Bush headed across the Atlantic, he considered springing an eye-catching arms-control proposal at the NATO summit that would not only steal some of Gorbachev's thunder but also, perhaps, help heal a deep rift within the Western alliance. In the words of one of its architects, it would be a "real attention getter": a reduction of up to 10% of the 340,000 U.S. troops in Europe, with corresponding cuts in NATO aircraft and helicopters, if the Soviets agree to reduce their conventional forces to the levels the West...
...really sank in when French President Francois Mitterrand visited the President's vacation home in Kennebunkport, Me., two weeks ago. Mitterrand warned, as have other NATO leaders and U.S. diplomats, that the Administration was riling European public opinion by reacting so negatively to the Soviet leader's arms-control offers...
Bush's emerging arms-control strategy is designed to offer both a carrot and a stick to the West Germans. The carrot is a quicker start to missile- reduction talks, even though the U.S. will continue to insist on keeping some short-range nukes as an essential deterrent to Soviet attack. The stick is a threat to pull out even more U.S. troops from West Germany, which Kohl opposes. "What we have to do," says a State Department official, "is show the Germans that we have ideas for getting a conventional-arms agreement fairly quickly, so they could then...
...challenged," says John Hicks, a deputy assistant director of the FBI, "but the proficiency of the tester." Unlike traditional fingerprinting, which is done by police experts in official labs, DNA testing is carried out by several private firms that specialize in the technique, and the courts have no direct control over the quality of the work. The tests in the Castro case were performed in 1987 by the oldest and largest company in the business, Lifecodes of Valhalla, N.Y. The firm insists that it has refined its methods in the past two years...
...think they are being heard at the center. And I think those farthest from the seats of power tend to be nearer to the heart of things. It was true in the civil rights movement and in the antiwar movement. Now the same thing is true of arms control...