Word: geralds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Soviets have been insisting that SALT II follow the guidelines approved by Moscow's Leonid Brezhnev and President Gerald Ford at their 1974 summit in Vladivostok. These allow each side 2,400 strategic missile launchers, of which 1,320 can be armed with MIRVs-multiple, independently targetable warheads. As clear as these guidelines may have seemed originally, they soon became mired in controversy. The U.S., for instance, has been insisting that the ceilings cover the U.S.S.R.'s new Backfire bomber; the Soviets reject this. In turn, Moscow argues that U.S. aircraft firing cruise missiles-relatively cheap, accurate subsonic...
...from most airports. Moreover a strong threat arose last week that no more Concordes would ever be built. After a select committee of Parliament added up the staggering losses that the British government was likely to take on the present fleet (as much as $340 million), Aero space Minister Gerald Kaufman said that no more Concordes would be constructed unless there were profitable orders-which seems most unlikely...
...this production is a guide to what Hall will put on in the future, the National Theater's new complex on the Thames belongs at the top of any visitor's list, right next to the Tower, Big Ben and the corner pub. -Gerald Clark...
Safire less frequently bashes Republicans, but he has publicly disowned Spiro Agnew for his anti-Semitism and criticized Gerald Ford and Henry Kissinger for encouraging rebellion among Iraq's Kurds and then refusing to aid them. A slick stylist with a sweet tooth for bon mots, Safire resisted obvious puns on the Kurds but drops groaners like "Zbig Government," and "Yamani or ya life...
Paperwork is to Government what, say, breathing is to the governed. So there was considerable skepticism in October 1975 when Congress and President Gerald Ford decided to try to curb the proliferation of official forms, reports and studies by creating a Commission on Federal Paperwork. With their franchise due to expire next month, the commission's 14 members have spent $1 million less than their $10.5 million anticipated budget. With the aid of 200 full-time staffers, they prepared 35 reports-totaling 550 pages. Among their discoveries: the federal bureaucracy spends billions each year just pushing paper around...