Word: keying
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Saturday morning the mood changed abruptly. Gromyko suddenly began disputing points that seemed minor and bringing up issues that Vance thought had been settled. Gromyko raised two key questions about the cruise missile, the highly accurate drone that the Pentagon is counting on to begin providing much of the nation's strategic strength in the 1980s. The Soviets insisted that cruise missiles outfitted with multiple warheads be formally banned until 1985, or for the duration of the SALT II treaty. Although this had come up in previous rounds of the arms talks, Vance thought that the matter had been...
Barring some sudden crisis in the Middle East, the issue at the top of the President's list is the normalization of relations with China, which goes into effect this week. A key ingredient of this new policy is the visit to Washington this month of China's peppery Vice Premier Teng Hsiao-p'ing, and it poses a ticklish problem for Carter. He must make Teng feel welcome without at the same time alarming the Soviets. Any missteps that aggravate Moscow's apprehensions about the rapprochement between the U.S. and Peking could further delay that...
...year-old social-democratic Ecevit government was being brutally tested in ways similar to the more drastic turmoil in neighboring Iran. But there were also differences. The key one was that the violence that threatened Ecevit's government was based on religious rivalry. One of the factions is Turkey's Shi'ite Muslim minority (known locally as Alevis), which comprises 25% of the country's 41 million people. The Alevis are regarded as left-leaning and generally support Ecevit's Republican People's Party. The other is the country's Sunni Muslim majority...
...linkage"remains the key point at issue between them...
That controversy goes to the heart of the Egyptian-Israeli dilemma. Three other key issues remain unsettled: Egypt's proposal for a review of security arrangements between the two countries after five years, the timing of the exchange of ambassadors and whether the treaty would supersede Cairo's other commitments to the extent that it would prevent Egypt from going to the aid of another Arab country attacked by Israel. Presumably these issues can be resolved in time...