Word: mutually
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...argue that the U.S.S.R. has repeatedly violated detente's main charter, the "Basic Principles of Relations" between the U.S. and U.S.S.R., signed by Richard Nixon and Leonid Brezhnev at their Moscow summit in May of 1972. This communique stated that the two superpowers "will always exercise restraint in their mutual relations" and that "efforts to obtain unilateral advantage at the expense...
...amateur on this issue) believes that even the most serious damage that, for example, might have resulted at Three Mile Island would be a calamity comparable to a major nuclear exchange. Even a relatively small number of nuclear weapons now available in such overwhelming numbers is enough to make Mutual Assured Destruction (MAD) a deterrent to anyone who believes in Murphy's Law: that if anything can go wrong, it will. To hear Americans at the Salt II hearings discuss the possibilities of a first strike in which, as one put it, we could incinerate the Soviet Union, is terrifying...
Khomeini and the world outside Iran have spent most of 1979 glaring past each other in mutual incomprehension. The barriers to understanding go well beyond the Ayatullah's lack of interest in explaining himself to foreigners. He spent most of his life in obscurity; he was an enigma even to many of the theological students who presumably knew him best. Some of the most basic facts about his life are matters of conjecture, largely because Khomeini regards such personal details as unimportant. It is not known whether his birth date is actually May 17, 1900, as Tehran newspapers assert...