Word: mutuals
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Committee Chairman Clement Zablocki of Wisconsin asked for a vote, all but one of his Democrats and even four committee Republicans said aye to this year's resolution to cap U.S. and Soviet nuclear arsenals at current levels. Last week's 27-to-9 vote endorsed a "mutual, verifiable freeze on testing, production and further deployment" of nuclear weapons. Passage this week by the full House seems likely...
...flashbacks. Rather, Pinter charts the entire course of Jerry's affair with Emma backward, starting with a wistful coda, then proceeding through breakup, Robert's discovery of what the couple is up to, the rental of a love nest, the first illicit meeting, the initial acknowledgment of mutual attraction, with which the film ends. There is something smug and self-conscious about this conceit, but it is also unbalancing. Since the triangle cliché is so familiar, the only possible way to impart suspense is by focusing on what happened first...
Sudan seems an inconvenient victim for Libyan aggression. The 1,700 miles of desert between Tripoli and Khartoum make supply lines impossible; moreover, Gaddafi would risk sparking the anger of Egypt, which has a mutual defense treaty with Sudan. Another possibility, according to many analysts, is that Gaddafi is training his sights on Chad. In November 1980, he sent Libyan troops to Chad to support former President Goukouni Oueddei in his struggle against former Defense Minister Hissène Habré. But after a 1981 withdrawal of Libyan troops, Habré, backed by Egypt, Israel, Sudan and the U.S., defeated...
...speech to the synod, Baker attacked as a fallacy "the belief that mutual nuclear deterrence is a reasonably stable condition and likely to remain so." On the contrary, he said, "the overwhelming evidence is that it is becoming less stable year by year, and so less plausible as a means of keeping the peace...
...renowned U.S.-born conductor, who raised the Los Angeles Philharmonic to the top ranks as its music director from 1943 to 1956; in New York City. A child prodigy who played cello on the vaudeville circuit to help pay for his music studies, he conducted his Sinfonietta on the Mutual Network from...