Word: limits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sale of nuclear reprocessing plants to Brazil and Pakistan respectively. But they told Mondale they were willing to tighten international safeguards to prevent the conversion of spent reactor fuel into atomic weapons-a high Carter priority. Mondale also got agreement for further high-level international negotiations to limit the export of nuclear facilities...
...first signal that the game was renewed came last week when, in his first interview as President, Carter expanded his Inaugural Address pledge of "perseverance and wisdom in our efforts to limit the world's armaments." In a talk with the Associated Press and United Press International, he said: "I would like to proceed quickly and aggressively with a comprehensive [nuclear] test ban treaty. I am in favor of eliminating the testing of all nuclear devices, instantly and completely." As for the stalled Strategic Arms Limitation Talks, he declared that he expected "a fairly rapid ratification of the SALT...
...most urgent matter in the U.S. Soviet dialogue is a new agreement on strategic arms, for the 1972 SALT I limit on missile launchers will expire in October. For nearly five years, negotiators have been seeking some broader formula for a long-term ceiling on strategic weapons. At the Brezhnev-Ford summit at Vladivostok in November 1974, the two leaders agreed that a SALT II accord should limit each superpower to 2,400 strategic nuclear delivery vehicles-including missiles and bombers. A final draft of the SALT II treaty seemed imminent, but complications arose. Many American advocates of arms control...
...adding more stimulus than the Administration wants, probably in the form of fatter outlays for public works and revenue sharing for states and cities. The key question is how much more Congress can increase the program without risking a Carter veto. Though the Administration refuses to set any numerical limit, Charles L. Schultze, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, warns that the more Congress adds, the more likely a veto becomes...
...Limit. On the fourth morning, as the 82 remaining racers waited at Thief River Falls, Minn., to begin the final 148-mile sprint to Winnipeg, a wave of fierce Arctic air-accompanied by a blizzard-swept in. Temperatures plummeted to -16°, and the 30 m.p.h.-wind blew the snow horizontally across the frigid landscape. Even snowmobilers have their limit. Officials called off the race and awarded first-prize money ($10,500) to the contestant with the best time for three days (9:39:43), 19-year-old Archie Simonson of Grand Forks, N. Dak. Simonson has already earmarked...