Word: moratorium
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...that it allowed each side to increase the number of warheads in some categories and to build major new missile systems. But even now, I think it is possible to control the arms race and put a cap on it if a will to disarmament is created. An immediate moratorium by both the United Sates and the Soviet Union on the deployment and production of all new strategic weapons would provide just such a possibility. Such a moratorium is not farfetched, but represents a very realistic approach. It could rely on the means of detection and verification that each side...
Rathjens argued that the U.S. and the Soviet Union should agree on an average percentage reduction of their nuclear arsenals, that the U.S. should take unilateral steps that would hopefully push the Soviet Union to make similar cutbacks and that the two countries should declare a moratorium on further construction of weapons...
Members of the Safe Energy campaign advocate a national program to increase energy efficiency and waste elimination, a moratorium on the licensing of nuclear power plants, and a government organized phase out of all existing plants...
...watched helplessly as Americans rallied behind the President and supported his handling of the crisis in Iran. With hostages' lives in danger, most of Carter's opponents restlessly refrained from making any partisan criticism. But the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan changed everything, and last week any moratorium on presidential politicking ended with a bang...
...G.O.P. front runner, Ronald Reagan had been helped by the moratorium, since his rivals could not exploit the foreign policy issues as a means of gaining on him. But last week Reagan opened up. He scoffed at Carter's new views of the Soviets. Reagan told TIME: "The only thing that surprises me is that the President is surprised." He added: "President Carter has finally admitted to a truth most Americans have been aware of for some time-the Soviet leaders are not to be trusted...