Word: deferements
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...where a closet Communist regime seized power last month, as another Soviet success. And this is on China's own western flank. Peking is also thought to feel that Carter has been too eager to accommodate the Russians in the slow-moving SALT talks and to abandon or defer development of modern weapons such as the B-1 bomber and the neutron warhead...
...instance, would leave Namibia's security in the hands of the present South African police force during the transition period and would not require a reduction of South African troops stationed in the north until a "meaningful cessation of violence" had taken place. The plan would also defer to the new government the problem of Walvis Bay, the big harbor that geographically is part of Namibia but historically was separate-and which South Africa wants to keep...
...Moscow by the President and told to carry out "open" diplomacy, Vance found himself uncharacteristically briefing reporters on what the new Administration was demanding of the Kremlin in the way of a SALT II agreement: the Russians should either agree to a drastic reduction in strategic weapons or defer such problems as the Soviet Backfire bomber and U.S. Cruise missile and accept a simple continuation of the modest limitations on offensive weapons tentatively set by Brezhnev and Ford at Vladivostok in 1974. Brezhnev, stung by both the human rights campaign and what sounded like an arms ultimatum, coldly rejected...
...Harvard portfolio, but there are usually only a few major issues on the proxy agenda--this year the issues are South Africa, bottle feeding, and political contributions, last year they were the Arab boycott of Israel; and South Africa. On the purely financial resolutions the ACSR may defer to the Corporation subcommittee, but on almost all important shareholder issues the ACSR considers the matter and makes a recommendation to the Corporation. Unless the ACSR's vote is too close for the Corporation to draw "a clear mandate" from it, the subcommittee has tended not to disagree with the ACSR...
PRESIDENT CARTER'S decision last week to "defer" production of the neutron bomb for now seems at first glance to be a laudable move, but beneath that decision lies the shallow echo of Carter's campaign promise to stop nuclear proliferation. Carter alienated friends and foes alike with his shifting stand on the "clean" nuclear weapon; and while his decision to hold off production of the neutron bomb in the face of such pressure is commendable, the reasoning behind the decision is suspect and the final outcome still remains in doubt...