Word: jointly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...agreement also included the pre-positioning of U.S. military supplies in Israel for quick use in any enlarged military crisis. Joint military exercises are envisioned, although U.S. officials said they will be air and sea maneuvers rather than land operations, which would be more threatening to Arab nations...
During the fall of 1981, bureaucratic alliances were formed for and against various features of the prospective proposal. Perle was determined that the Joint Chiefs of Staff should support the civilian leadership of the Pentagon on the zero-only option. When it looked as though the chiefs might side with the State Department, Perle threatened to include aircraft on the agenda for the talks...
...apply only to nuclear-armed cruise missiles; those with conventional warheads would be exempt. The trouble was that the distinction would be virtually impossible for either side to verify. There would be no way to tell a nuclear-armed cruise missile from one that was conventionally armed. Besides, the Joint Chiefs took the position that a conventionally armed ground-launched cruise missile would represent too little bang for the buck, so there were no plans to deploy...
...along a typed version of the possible agreement and a pencil and paper for Kvitsinsky to make his own copy. Huddled over their work, sheltering their papers against the drizzle, they tinkered with the language so that they could each have identical versions. The text began, "This is a joint exploratory package for the consideration of both governments; it is not an offer or a proposal by either government...
...State (and presidential candidate) Edmund Muskie. His nine advisers included two former Defense Secretaries: James Schlesinger, who had that title again, and Clark Clifford, who played the Secretary of State. Former Army Chief of Staff General Edward Meyer, who reluctantly wore his uniform, acted as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The group was well-balanced ideologically-improbably so-but a certain tilt existed: eight of the nine players served the Carter Administration...