Word: foreign
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Speaking to a group of Soviet officials, Byrd cautioned that Moscow would "not contribute to a constructive discussion of the treaty" by expecting the Senate to be the White House's rubber stamp. Byrd was presumably alluding to Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko's statement that it would be the "end of negotiations" if the Senate amended SALT II. Byrd also advised the Soviets not to be offended by the rhetoric that will be sounded during the SALT debate. Said he: "The conscientious application of our constitutional process [should not be viewed] as a challenge to the Soviet...
...members of the U.S. Embassy with him for his 1-hr, and 45-min. meeting with Soviet Communist Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev. Administration officials were similarly excluded from Byrd's more-than-two-hour talk with Gromyko. This session began on an amiable note, with the Foreign Minister observing that his pile of briefing notes was thinner than Byrd's thick folder. "That's just my notebook," replied the majority leader. "I'm going to write down what you tell...
...powerful members, he could play the pivotal role in determining the treaty's fate. On leaving Moscow, Byrd said: "I will not make up my own mind immediately. I will await at least some of the hearings." Those hearings were scheduled to begin this week when the Senate Foreign Relations Committee opens the great debate by calling two of SALT'S strongest supporters: Secretary of State Cyrus Vance and Defense Secretary Harold Brown...
...knows yet what causes this crippler, which afflicts perhaps 6 million Americans, but it seems to involve the immune system. Some white blood cells-part of the system's defenses-seem to go awry. Possibly because something appears "foreign" to them in the joints, perhaps a virus, they converge at these sites. That causes a chronic inflammation that may erode the cartilage and then the bones, leading to deformity...
...filter these cells out of the blood, or any of the foreign material that may be circulating in it, doctors have been turning to a special blood-separation technique. Used by blood banks for at least a decade and more recently as an experimental therapy for other immune-system disorders like lupus erythematosis, myasthenia gravis and polymyositis, it is somewhat similar to hemodialysis for kidney patients. For three or so hours, the blood is slowly tapped from the body, shunted into a centrifuge, spun and separated into its constituents by weight: heavy red cells sink to the bottom, white cells...