Word: equality
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While grilling Defense Secretary Harold Brown, Jackson charged that the Administration had failed to comply with a law that he had sponsored in 1972. It requests that future arms agreements set equal levels for the strategic forces of both the U.S. and U.S.S.R. Because SALT II allows the Soviets to have more powerful missiles than the U.S., argued Jackson, there would be no equality under the pact. Said he to Brown: "A team of giants and a team of dwarfs might have equal numbers of players, but they are hardly equal." To which the Secretary retorted: "If the dwarfs...
There is a kaleidoscopic quality to these images. Myth and legend are intertwined. Fiction becomes truth. Good and evil are presented on equal terms; there is no shift in the narrative voice. In the banality of evil, as Hannah Arendt so well described, lies its horror. The pre-moral eyes of a growing child and the discipline of the poet lend the narrative the detachment needed to convey this banality. The narrator does not judge, but show, weaving the events into a fabric of legend and death...
...Georgians came with a determination to run the White House differently. They were all equals, with equal access to Carter himself, but without the authority to make serious policy decisions...
...Socialist and Communist censure motions. An independent herself, Pintassilgo has been described as both a "Catholic militant" and a "pure social democrat." As Minister of Social Affairs in the first provisional government following the army-inspired Flower Revolution of 1974, she was best known for promoting the introduction of equal rights for women into the country's new constitution...
...writing a book on Rasputin that would show the monk had a good influence on Tsar Nicholas II. "Rasputin was a very simple person with very good ideas," said the exiled Russian writer, who is doing research at the Hoover Institution in Palo Alto, Calif. "He wanted equal rights for Jews, a separate peace with Germany in World War I and the redistribution of land to the peasants." Some historians will doubtless question Amalrik's contentions that the legendary monk was really as good as all that. Still, in the words of the Boney M. song that is sweeping...