Word: discussion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Senate would like to keep them narrowed. Senators Mansfield, Gore, Symington, Cooper, and Percy have deplored the secrecy about U. S. activities in Laos. Though Laird denies the presence of combat troops there, he refuses to discuss the U. S. role or specify the nature of current military operations on the Plaine des Jarres. Should the facts prove otherwise, he faces possible censure from the Senate. A Congressional amendment to a current appropriations bill forbids the dispatch of ground forces to Laos or Thailand. (This amendment contradicts the bilateral military agreements made with Thailand...
...Senate leadership will turn the Protocol over to Senator William Fulbright (D-Ark.) who, as chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, will begin hearings a few weeks later to discuss the pros and cons of the Protocol...
...Complaining strongly about Soviet activity in the Middle East and its support of North Viet Nam, Nixon finds current relations with Moscow "far from satisfactory." He expresses satisfaction, however, about the start in U.S.-Soviet negotiations on arms limitation and reaffirms U.S. readiness to meet with Kremlin leaders to discuss any matter. He also says that the U.S., while recognizing the Soviet Union's security interests in Eastern Europe, will continue the efforts begun during his 1969 visit to Rumania to improve relations with Communist nations...
...missiles, 656 to 300. Expressing dismay over the Soviet buildup, Nixon pledges that the U.S. will enhance its own security by going ahead with the Safeguard ABM program. Oddly, there is no mention of continuation of U.S. testing of multiple-warhead offense missiles, possibly because the U.S. hopes to discuss controls on the numbers of such weapons when the second round of arms-limitation talks gets under way in Vienna April...
McCarthy will discuss action against CBW as a segment of arms control, and Clark, who started the CBW issue when he was a Senator from Pennsylvania, will talk on "The Arms Race and International Government...