Word: favor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rationale for the one-sidedness of the proposal is partly a matter of negotiating tactics: the U.S. should make an offer heavily weighted in its own favor, since any Soviet counteroffer is sure to be at least as much tilted in the other direction. More important, the U.S. proposal reflects a strongly held view in the Administration that the Soviets' sizable edge in land-based missiles and warheads has dangerously upset the "parity," or "rough equivalence...
...Administration's belief in Soviet nuclear superiority makes the negotiations more difficult than they would otherwise be. The U.S. has set itself the task of persuading the Kremlin leaders 1) to accept the proposition that the strategic balance is heavily in favor of the U.S.S.R. and 2) to accept the corollary that reductions, particularly in ICBMs, must be in favor of the U.S. In Reagan's view, ICBMs are "the most destabilizing" weapons, since they alone pose the threat of a preemptive attack; bombers and cruise missiles are too slow flying, and submarine-launched missiles insufficiently accurate...
Experts in Moscow concede that their government has consciously sought an edge in ICBMS, but they see that advantage merely as offsetting other factors that favor the U.S. "Would your leaders really like to trade your neighbors for ours?" asks one of these officials. "Canada and Mexico for NATO and China? It is true that we rely heavily on iCBMs. They are the artillery of the nuclear age. We are a land power. Our military has always worshiped artillery as the god of war. You Americans are a naval and air power. Yet your President proposes limits only in land...
...advisers. In foreign affairs the President has little experience and at times seems to lack the intense interest he displays in domestic concerns. He has preferred to govern in the foreign sphere by consensus, letting advisers argue out their views in front of him and deciding now in favor of one, now for another...
...Constitution be approved by a three-fifths plurality of the state house and senate. Despite intense lobbying, legislators have refused to agree to a rules change that would require only a simple majority. When the Illinois house put the amendment to a vote, it was 103-72 in favor, four yes votes shy of passage. At week's end the senate fell five votes short of a three-fifths majority, with a vote of 31-27 in favor. Lamented State Senator Dawn Clark Netsch: "What is really distressing is that Illinois remains the only northern industrial state...