Word: deploy
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Puzzled Americans watched with concern four years ago as hundreds of thousands of West Europeans protested the deployment of the U.S. intermediate- range missiles that the allied governments had requested. Now, with the U.S. and the Soviet Union inching closer to an arms deal that would remove both American and Soviet missiles from Europe, some allies are upset by the development. Last week Kenneth Adelman, the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency director, summed up American exasperation with Europe's apparent inconsistency. Said Adelman in an interview with the West German weekly Stern: "We have a perception that they complain...
...sent inspectors to examine the gunk. Although the bales consisted primarily of paper, investigators discovered hospital items -- syringes, bedpans -- that could pose a health hazard. The bales were also beginning to ooze, and inspectors feared the scum would leak into the river. Governor Edwin Edwards half jokingly threatened to deploy National Guardsmen on the levees with orders to shoot if the barge tried to dock. As the vessel meandered about the Gulf of Mexico, Louisiana Attorney General William Guste trashed federal authorities. "The Environmental Protection Agency was not watching it at all," he said. "If that barge tips or runs...
...laboratory research only; to Shultz in Moscow he defined "laboratory research" as including tests of SDI components that could be conducted on the ground. That did not necessarily bring an agreement any closer. The U.S. insists on conducting tests in space also, and indeed on the right eventually to deploy SDI. Gorbachev has demanded that stern limits on SDI accompany any Soviet-American agreement on deep cuts in long-range nuclear missiles, and on that his position is unchanged...
...believe it is extremely unlikely that the U.S. would deploy SDI under conditions of an arms reduction, considering the extremely negative political, economic and strategic consequences of deployment and the harm SDI would do to the stability of the world situation. (Prominent U.S. political figures are convinced that Congress would not permit it.) If disarmament begins, the SDI program in the U.S. will lose its popularity...
...course the second scenario is less favorable than the first for the U.S.S.R. But it is also less favorable for the U.S. and for the entire world. This provides reason to hope that the U.S. will not deploy SDI and will limit itself to research, which may even bear fruit in peaceful areas...