Word: documentation
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wait that accompanied the report was exceptionally long, even by Washington standards. The bulky document on alleged Soviet violations of international agreements was prepared by the General Advisory Committee (GAC), a panel affiliated with the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, and sent to President Reagan in December 1983. But it was not until last week that the White House, under pressure from conservative Republican Senators, released a summary of its findings. The verdict: the U.S.S.R. has committed "material breaches" of half of the 26 arms agreements it has been party...
...flurry of events left the Administration slightly off balance, as it has been since the Sandinistas announced two weeks ago that they were ready to sign a Contadora treaty immediately and without further negotiations. Discussions about the document, which calls for a non-aggression agreement and a commitment to democracy among the nations of Central America, have been going on since January 1983. The U.S. has grave reservations about the treaty as it stands. Among other flaws, say U.S. diplomats, the document would require the U.S. to halt military aid to El Salvador immediately, without stopping Soviet and Cuban assistance...
Ortega's invasion announcement appeared to be part of a deliberate media blitz by the Sandinistas, who, according to a confidential internal document leaked to the U.S. embassy in Managua, intend "to introduce our electoral campaign into the U.S. electoral campaign." Whatever the Nicaraguan motives, TIME has learned that the anti-Sandinista rebels known as contrasindeed have plans to launch a series of attacks in Nicaragua within the next two weeks. According to contra spokesmen, the offensive would be the first in which the various rebel groups strike simultaneously, forcing the Sandinistas to spread their defenses more thinly than...
Washington reacted by accusing the Sandinistas of attempting a devious propaganda ploy. The draft treaty is "full of loopholes," declared a senior U.S. diplomat. Other officials claimed that the Sandinistas were using an incomplete document-which is, for example, unfinished on the subject of the verification of arms inventories-to convince increasingly skeptical friends and neighbors of their democratic and peaceful intentions. The U.S. reaction produced exasperation in Managua. Said a senior official of the Nicaraguan Foreign Ministry: "It sometimes seems as if, short of committing collective suicide, there is nothing Nicaragua can do to please the United States...
...less publicized but more permanent funeral awaits him in the Soviet Union once he heads over the dossier, Kimberly decides to defect in England--this time as Serge Kosminsky, commercial attache, Quickly slipping out of the hands of the British Foreign Office, Kimberly goes on to search for the document. Enter Admiral Scaithe, played by Laurence Oliver, Kimberly's successor in British intelligence and the man assigned to track down the supposed defector. Having watched Kimberly's supposed funeral on televison, Scaithe does not immediately suspect that his former colleague and friend is back in town but when fingerprints from...