Word: counterpart
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Moscow called for the withdrawal of all foreign warships from the gulf and criticized the U.S. military buildup. This week the Soviet-American dialogue will continue when Richard Murphy, the U.S. Assistant Secretary of State who specializes in Middle Eastern affairs, holds talks in Geneva with his Soviet counterpart, Vladimir Polyakov...
Unlike its U.S. counterpart, the Soviet charter is not the law against which other laws are judged. Instead, an exhaustive compendium of legal codes takes precedence, and the Soviet Supreme Court is not empowered to override such laws by invoking the constitution. "There is no system of checks and balances whereby the judiciary can say to the legislative branch, 'You can't do that, it's against the constitution," says Harold Berman, a Soviet legal expert at Emory University...
...sensitivities to Soviet aggrandizement, warned of the implications of a U.S. tilt toward Iraq in its 6 1/2-year war with Iran. Jeane Kirkpatrick advised the Administration to go slow. Senate Majority Leader Robert Byrd, a West Virginia Democrat, called Reagan's plan "half baked, poorly developed." Said his Republican counterpart, Bob Dole of Kansas: "I don't think anyone knows quite what the policy is." Even ultraconservative Republican Senator Jesse Helms remarked that Congress needed "more answers" from the Administration before approving the reflagging plan...
...been 14 years since marine archaeologists rediscovered the U.S.S. Monitor, the Civil War ironclad that sank in a storm near Cape Hatteras, N.C., ten months after the historic 1862 standoff with its Confederate counterpart, the C.S.S. Virginia.* Since then more than 100 artifacts have been recovered from the wreck, including wine bottles and a 1,300-lb. anchor. Despite the Monitor's designation in March as the country's first undersea National Historic Landmark, scientists and Government officials have been unable to decide whether the ship itself can be salvaged. Last week, after a 14-day expedition...
...Keith asked other developers to buy $100 tickets to a late May fundraiser for state Rep. Kevin Fitzgerald (D-Boston). Fitzgerald is House chairman of the Housing and Urban Development committee. The Developers Council also turned out in force at a 1986 fundraiser for Fitzgerald's Senate housing committee counterpart, Sen. Frederick Berry (D-Peabody...