Word: matter
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...often in diplomatic history, the current crisis had an almost innocuous beginning. In mid-August, U.S. intelligence agencies concluded (from yet undisclosed evidence) that Soviet combat forces, as distinct from advisers, were in Cuba. At that point, the matter might have been quietly clarified and even settled by Moscow and Washington with some adroit negotiating. But the Administration lost control of the issue when it conveyed the intelligence findings to Senator Frank Church, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and an Idaho Democrat who faces a tough re-election fight next year. Church went public with the matter...
...likely to mollify the hard-nosed critics of the Soviets who are demanding a firm stand. At immediate risk is the fate of the SALT II treaty; if the Senate turns it down, the defeat could seriously damage Washington-Moscow relations. Carter's handling of this sensitive matter, moreover, will be viewed as yet another severe test of his much criticized leadership ability...
This argument had already been sharply rejected by Gromyko. Addressing the U.N. General Assembly in Manhattan, he bluntly told the U.S., "Our advice on this score is simple: it is high time you admit this whole matter is artificial and proclaim it to be closed...
...first major Administration statement on the brigade, Vance had said: "We regard this as a very serious problem." But last week he emphasized to a Manhattan luncheon of the Foreign Policy Association that "we have significant interests at stake in our total relationship with the Soviet Union." Thus the matter of the Soviet troops must be kept "in proper perspective." Although that message seemed to be aimed at Senate hawks, Vance also spoke more softly to the Soviets than his President had. In an address to the U.N., he merely observed that "the East-West relationship can deteriorate dangerously whenever...
...Mission Hill residents, reflects the bottom line feelings; "Once Harvard gets the diesels in," he says, "they'll never take them down or shut them off." The community has visions of teeming hordes of Harvard-trained-and-hired lawyers streaming into courthouses, keeping the diesels running no matter how much nitrogen dioxide they pour out. Lashman's promise that the DEQE "has the right to jerk the permit and the absolute right to shut us down" falls on deaf ears...