Word: limiting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...every passing month as each side accuses the other of activities that violate the understanding. Meanwhile, new weapons systems under development by both sides are becoming harder and harder to deal with under arms-control proposals. One crucial new area that must be dealt with soon: an effort to limit the use of weapons in space...
...other side of the country, another potential time bomb, New York's Attica Correctional Facility, is ticking again. The state, strapped for prison space, has allowed Attica's population to rise above the 1,758 limit set after the 1971 riot in which 43 guards and inmates were killed. By this fall, Attica had 2,100 prisoners, which overwhelmed employment and education programs; for 500 there is no work at all. In September most of the inmates went on a two-week protest strike...
...proceeded to release 610 inmates, many with long criminal records. A political furor resulted when one was rearrested within two days on a charge of rape. The October reopening of the renovated Manhattan House of Detention, better known as the Tombs, will not help much, because officials plan to limit its population to one prisoner for each of its relatively luxurious 421 cells. Judge Lasker closed the jail in 1974 after declaring it unfit for human habitation...
...served the foreign policy goals of the Soviet Union. They have tried and failed to convince a majority of the West European electorate that the Cruise and Pershing 2 missiles are part of an American effort either to launch a first strike against the Soviet Union and or to limit a nuclear war to Europe the peace movement's vision of "Euroshima" flies in the face of the logic of the NATO decision: to visibly and tangibly reinforce "extended deterrence," that is, the coupling of the defense of Western Europe to the American nuclear arsenal in the face...
...greater than even the USSR). South Africa is ostracized by virtually the entire world community. South Africa has been excluded from regular sessions of the General Assembly of the United Nations since 1974, banned from the Olympics and other international organizations, and there has long been an attempt to limit or ban international trade with the apartheid state...