Word: moving
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...years intelligence operatives in Moscow and Washington have tended to regard "peaceful coexistence," and more recently detente, as a continuation of the cold war by other means. Spies have used the proliferation of official contacts between East and West to move back and forth, and counterspies have reacted accordingly. Ever since a Soviet-American student exchange program was established in 1958, the FBI, which is responsible for counterespionage in the U.S., has been on the lookout for agents of the Soviet secret police, or KGB, operating undercover as visiting students and scholars...
...while the A.U.E.W. is determined to maintain the pay differentials. But the vote at least staved off the worst. The government, which now owns 95% of Leyland's stock, had passed the word that it would advance no more cash to Leyland if centralized bargaining were rejected-a move that would have meant the company's demise. The workers apparently believed that London really meant...
...move was widely anticipated, but it set off diplomatic tremors anyhow...
...based missiles, the MX would do little to enhance deterrence. It would be very destabilizing, though. White ostensibly mannufactured for defensive purposes, the MX would bring the U.S. closer to being able to launch a first-strike against the Soviet Union than it has ever been before. Such a move could only be viewed by the Soviets as aggressive, and thus it would hamper future efforts at arms reductions. Another problem is that since the missile would be housed in unmarked underground tunnels, Soviet satellites would be unable to to verify how many missiles the U.S. had in stock. Arms...
WITH ITS SUDDEN, COMPREHENSIVE CRACKDOWN on moderate black and interracial organizations and press three weeks ago, South Africa's white minority regime has made it more than clear that it is not about to reform its apartheid policy in any meaningful way, let alone accept any move toward a black majority government in the future. Last month's wave of repression was the harshest and widest-ranging since the early '60s: the regime banned 18--or virtually all--of the country's black organizations and shut down South Africa's leading black newspapers, thus openly betraying its claim that South...