Word: counterpart
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Kvitsinsky's American counterpart was Paul Nitze, 80, a grand old man of American nuclear strategy. In 1982 they engaged in an extraordinary, one-on- one mini-negotiation -- the so-called walk in the woods -- that resulted in a tentative deal that would have sacrificed the Pershing II but allowed the U.S. a stripped-down deployment of cruise missiles to counter a residual force of SS-20s. Cruise missiles fly subsonically at low altitudes and are vulnerable to enemy air defenses. The Pershing II ballistic missiles arc to the edge of space and can strike targets inside western Russia...
...hardened their position from the one they had left on the table when they walked out in late 1983. With much self-righteous fanfare, the Soviets slowly meted out "concessions" that they had already made in the past. Maynard Glitman, the chief American negotiator on INF, told his Soviet counterpart, Alexei Obukhov, "You may take six hours or six days or six weeks or six months to get back to where you were in 1983. We don't care. But you'd better know this: when you get back to those original positions, you get no credit for it with...
...victory was an appropriate gift for Keffer's counterpart, Tri-Captain Sharon Hayes (16 points, two rebounds and three steals on the night), who was presented the game ball after becoming only the second player in Harvard women's basketball history to break the 1000 point mark...
...Providence Phoenix will look much like its Boston counterpart, but may have different ads and arts listings, Morris said. Most of the copy in the Providence edition of the weekly. which is distributed free at college, campuses and costs a dollar at the newstands, will be identical to the Boston version...
Dulsky may have won the battle of the captains--leading Harvard to its second-straight Game victory--but afterward he spoke highly, almost reverently, about his counterpart...