Word: eurekas
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...over the Kremlin's Palace of Congresses when Brezhnev reached the heart of his 35-minute address. The Komsomol delegates knew, as did Washington and the rest of the world, that the Soviet leader was planning to answer Ronald Reagan's proposal, made earlier this month at Eureka College in Illinois, for Strategic Arms Reduction Talks (START...
...words that conveyed both firmness and flexibility, Ronald Reagan last week began the campaign for his plan to reduce the nuclear arsenals of the world's two superpowers. In a prime-time press conference, he elaborated on and defended his proposal, outlined the previous Sunday at Illinois' Eureka College, for Strategic Arms Reduction Talks (START). Reagan's plan would require deep reductions in the Soviets' large land-based missiles, which form the bulk of their arsenal. "I think you start with first things first," the President said, referring to the massive rockets that he calls...
...Bonn, as many as 150,000 protesters are expected to mass on the banks of the Rhine across from the building where Reagan will be meeting with the leaders of other North Atlantic Treaty Organization nations. The tone of such rallies may be somewhat muted by Reagan's Eureka proposal. In Paris, the centrist daily Le Monde said Reagan was asking the Soviets to make most of the sacrifices, but the paper still praised his willingness to resume negotiations...
...then did Ronald Reagan, who has spent much of his adult life refining the notion of America as arsenal of the free world, journey to the sun-dappled campus nuclear Eureka College, his Illinois alma mater, to sound the call for nuclear restraint...
...throw weight"-the cumulative power to "throw" megatons of death and destruction at the other nation. That excessive throw weight on the Soviet side of the scales has upset the strategic balance. Therefore the onus is on the U.S.S.R. to make deeper cuts. In fact, in his Eureka speech, Reagan said he wants eventually to reduce both sides' missile throw weight to "less than current American levels...