Word: keys
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...characteristics of the Soviet strategic arsenal. Through such observations, Washington would have been able to be pretty confident that Moscow was not cheating under the terms of SALT II. But whether the U.S. can continue to monitor Soviet tests with the same certitude is now being questioned, especially by key U.S. Senators concerned about the loss of two important CIA listening posts in northern Iran. Such worries are making verification a major issue in the SALT II debate even before the treaty has been fully negotiated. Though clearly in its final stages, the accord remains blocked by a few issues...
...mounted recoilless rifle. A second force, which literally moved at a walk because of a shortage of motor transport, headed north to take control of the Israeli-built airfield at Nakasongola, 66 miles from Kampala. One group of soldiers managed to move quickly, for its assignment was to occupy key points in Jinja, an industrial town east of Kampala, and then seize the Owen Falls dam, Uganda's only source of electric power...
...declared: "Change is coming. The slither and slide to the socialist state is going to be stopped, halted and turned back." All that Labor offered, she said, was "a clarion call for inertia and indolence." Ten points behind in the polls, Prime Minister James Callaghan was meanwhile giving low-key performances portraying himself as the leader who "will unite, not divide, the country...
...Miller notes, consumer spending, the key propellant in the economic expansion, seems to be waning. Americans are up to their credit cards in debt, with installment and mortgage payments taking 23% of their disposable income, up a full three points since 1975. At the same time, soaring prices for food and energy are eating into paychecks and limiting consumer ability to repay loans and make other purchases...
...under private labels of K-Mart and other chains. In another case, Harper's International, a Hong Kong automotive distributor, plans to build a big bus-and-truck assembly plant in Shenzhen (Shumchun), just across the border from Hong Kong. In Shenzhen, Chinese are already assembling handbags, shoes, key chains and plastic flowers for Hong Kong companies...