Word: demand
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...negotiators in Iceland broke off in exhaustion and acrimony over President Reagan's refusal to accept Gorbachev's demand to amend the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty to bar Star Wars research and testing outside the laboratory...
...There can be qualification" of the laboratory demand, Arbatov said on the CBS program "Face the Nation...
...especially ironic that an argument criticizing the military would demand, in the same breath, that Harvard close one of the primary vehicles through which reform can occur. The ROTC program is the major provider to the military of officers with a college degree and a liberal arts education. Current ROTC participants at Harvard have such varied concentrations as Folklore and Mythology, Government, Classics and Biology. By forcing Harvard students out of the program, they would limit the influence of educated minds on military policy. This would be a shot in the foot rather than at the adversary...
...official, who spoke only on condition of anonymity, said the Soviets had indicated through diplomatic channels they were ready to separate the missiles issue from their demand at the summit that Reagan constrain the U.S. Strategic Defense Initiative...
...there was a conflicting signal from Moscow. Argentine President Raul Alfonsin, after meeting with Gorbachev on Wednesday, quoted the Soviet leader as saying the proposals were not divisible. That would include Gorbachev's demand about Star Wars...