Word: matter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...State Cyrus Vance, who has ordered U.S. embassies to use more care in safeguarding their secret files. One measure that has been largely abandoned is the dependence on thermite grenades for quick incineration of secret documents. U.S. outposts are now instructed to rely on shredding machines. But no matter what technology is chosen, the vigilance of those handling it is the real key to protecting U.S. secrets. Observes an old embassy hand: "Vance's new rules will last until people forget about them...
Equality of Treatment. The Carrington cease-fire plan specified 15 "assembly points" inside Zimbabwe Rhodesia for the guerrilla forces when a cease-fire begins. But no comparable provision was made for Salisbury's troops, who were merely to remain at their bases. The matter was resolved when Carrington agreed that the question of assembly points for the guerrillas would be removed from the principles governing the cease-fire and transferred to formal discussions on how the agreement will be carried...
...mere approval of the missile modernization by NATO would kill any chance of talks on trimming nuclear forces in Europe. But the Warsaw Pact foreign ministers wound up a meeting in East Berlin on a more conciliatory, and realistic, note: their communique suggested that such talks might proceed no matter what was decided in Brussels...
...hard on the protesters, as it did to quell the rioting in Soweto in 1976, it might spark more unrest. Predicts Fred Ferreira, Ford's industrial relations manager: "Inactivity is not going to solve this problem. Whether we get a black or a white backlash is simply a matter of time...
...resolve to forget the matter did not last long. A student in my afternoon section who had not attended the dinner asked for an explanation so she could respond to her friends questions. During the course of the day several students greeted me with variants on "I can't believe you said this" which meant "please tell us you didn't say this." My office hours were spent calming students (as well as myself) over this matter...