Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...coming weeks could be critical for the arms talks. A Cabinet-level special committee met last week to decide on final moves in what has been called SALT'S end game. Vance and Soviet Ambassador Anatoli Dobrynin have been meeting intensively to reach agreement on the final tradeoffs, and the two sides' delegations have been working overtime in Geneva. Carter is scheduled to offer a defense of SALT in a speech at Georgia Tech this week. Within "the next few weeks he hopes to announce a treaty signing and a Brezhnev summit by April...
...speech he made in Spanish to Mexico's Senate and Chamber of Deputies, Carter acknowledged that the problems between the two neighbors were difficult. Suggesting that the U.S. was not responsible for the high level of poverty in Mexico, he added that the immigration conflict will be eased only when Mexico's standard of living improves. Meanwhile, he said frankly, he intends to enforce U.S. immigration laws "as fairly and humanely as I can." Replying to a complaint from LÓpez Portillo that Mexicans working in the U.S. often are mistreated, Carter promised to "protect the basic...
Carter conducts foreign affairs, says Stevenson, "like high-level tourism instead of the hard work of diplomacy." Stevenson would prefer to emphasize economic measures more than military in combatting Soviet expansionism...
...Chinese and the Vietnamese have been exchanging insults and occasional gunfire along their mountainous 480-mile-long common border since last spring, when Hanoi forced an exodus of Chinese nationals who had lived in Viet Nam for years. But since December, the level of violence and invective has risen sharply, with shootings, cross-border raids and other clashes now occurring at a rate of about 30 a week...
...THOSE OF YOU Nat. Sci. majors out there who cannot deal with creativity at any level, the sets and the costumes are incredible...