Word: moratoriums
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rangy, rugged arms-control negotiator from Montana who risks his career and reputation to get an agreement in Geneva. In his farewell speech to the Senate, Hart offered his own arms-control policy: a 50% reduction in U.S. and Soviet nuclear arsenals, a nuclear test ban and a moratorium on the development of cruise missiles. His foreign policy views are almost the opposite of Ronald Reagan's. The underlying problem in Central America, Hart argues, is poverty, not the threat of Soviet influence. He advocates what he calls "enlightened engagement," a policy that relies primarily on economic and diplomatic initiatives...
...when the official announcement finally came last week, it caught journalists by surprise. They had gathered in the main hall of Moscow's ^ international press center to be briefed on an entirely different subject, the Kremlin's decision to resume nuclear testing after a self-imposed 16-month moratorium. During the question-and-answer session, Deputy Foreign Minister Vladimir Petrovsky was asked about reports that Sakharov and his wife Elena Bonner, who was also being detained in Gorky, were about to be freed...
...weapons testing, with the goal of achieving an international ban on all nuclear and space-based weapons by the year 2000. The Delhi Declaration, as it was called, implied that Moscow would extend its own unilateral nuclear test ban, which had been set to expire on Jan. 1. The moratorium was first imposed after an appeal from India. The Soviets also announced that they were giving India a new $1.2 billion credit package, the largest Moscow has ever given India...
...most experts, holds that only research is permitted on space-based antimissile systems like lasers. The Administration has advanced the so-called permissive interpretation, under which development and testing of those systems and their components would be allowed. That would mean that as soon as the ten-year moratorium on deployment ended, the U.S. might have some kind of partial defensive system ready to erect on short notice, or so the Soviets fear...
Gerasimov opened his talk with an affirmationof the Soviet's desire to achieve a moratorium onnuclear testing. "We are sincere in this nucleartest...