Word: jointly
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...security matters, evaluating data from the State Department, the Pentagon and other agencies with an eye to making policy recommendations to the President. The council itself consists of the President, Vice President and Secretaries of State and Defense, with the director of the CIA and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff serving as advisers. As recently as John F. Kennedy's Administration, the NSC was a relatively small operation, with about a dozen employees. The duties of the agency, which now has a full-time staff of about 60, mushroomed under Henry Kissinger, who served Richard Nixon. Kissinger...
...that seemed flat- out incredible: that Ollie North, a furtive, 43-year-old member of the NSC staff who operated out of an office across the street from the White House, had arranged the contra scam without the knowledge of the State Department, the Defense Department, the CIA, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the White House chief of staff or anyone in authority except his boss, Poindexter, who did nothing to stop...
...almost ten hours of talks with Gorbachev, Prime Minister Gandhi reiterated his own opposition to the militarization of outer space. The two leaders signed a joint declaration calling for an immediate ban on nuclear- weapons testing, with the goal of achieving an international ban on all nuclear and space-based weapons by the year 2000. The Delhi Declaration, as it was called, implied that Moscow would extend its own unilateral nuclear test ban, which had been set to expire on Jan. 1. The moratorium was first imposed after an appeal from India. The Soviets also announced that they were giving...
...Gorbachev flew home, officials in New Delhi and Moscow released a joint statement noting the "similarity in the positions of India and the U.S.S.R. on major world issues." Once again, the statement emphasized the urgency of nuclear disarmament...
...part of our heritage." Arthur Koestler, a leading intellectual and novelist of the '30s and '40s, sounds weary and detached. "I'm vice president of the Voluntary Euthanasia Society," says the author of Darkness at Noon. The following year, he and his wife Cynthia would carry out a joint suicide pact at their London residence...