Word: counterpart
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...another question. From the moment it was concluded, U.S. officials made clear that just as a defensive rivalry would fuel an offensive one, so defensive arms control must be accompanied by offensive arms control. In May 1972, Richard Nixon's chief SALT negotiator, Gerard Smith, put his Soviet counterpart, Vladimir Semyonov, on notice that there would have to be a SALT II treaty extending limitations on offensive arms within five years. Otherwise, "U.S. supreme interests could be jeopardized," and the treaty might have to be scrapped...
Rowny has conveyed a version of this gladiatorial analogy to his Soviet counterpart, Victor Karpov, at the negotiating table in Geneva. Rowny has also reminded Karpov of Smith's warning to Semyonov eleven years ago: the viability of the ABM treaty will depend on progress in offensive arms control...
General Barrow drafted his angry letter just as Israeli Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir and his Lebanese counterpart, Elie Salem, visited Washington for intensive negotiations with Secretary of State George Shultz. The purpose: to break the logjam in talks on withdrawing Israeli troops from Lebanon. The U.S. offered a variety of suggestions under which the security of southern Lebanon would be the responsibility of the Lebanese army and perhaps of special Lebanese units trained and equipped by the U.S. Major Saad Haddad's 1,200-man militia, which enjoys close links with the Israelis, could be integrated into this special...
Aside from the Mustang, LeBaron's only other Big Four counterpart already on the market is Buick's Riviera convertible, which came out in April. At about $25,000, the soft-top Buick is less a competitor than an elegant showpiece car, one of the most expensive built in America. Only about 2,000 have been sold...
...crime, but under the First Amendment, how-to manuals may be published. Thus, Let Me Die Before I Wake, put out by Hemlock, a Los Angeles-based organization named for the potion taken by Socrates, has been sold freely in bookstores. A more compassionate work than its British counterpart, Let Me Die gives case histories of desperately sick patients who have sought to end their lives. In recounting successful attempts, the book gives the precise doses of the drugs used...