Word: mutuals
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...superpower and the minipower had different motives for cranking up the mutual war of nerves. In the wake of President Reagan's election victory, Washington seemed intent on setting what one official called "the limits of U.S. tolerance" toward Marxist-led Nicaragua. After their somewhat less than democratic election triumph on Nov. 4, the Sandinistas seemed determined to keep building up their arsenal as rapidly as possible. Neither stance boded particularly well for the process of negotiated peace in the region, which both sides claim to support...
...also criticized the government of Irish Prime Minister Garret FitzGerald as a "small-potato republic mimicking its British imperialist masters." Thatcher and FitzGerald, who have been cooperating closely in the fight against I.R.A. terrorism, are scheduled to meet later this month to discuss the continuing problems that plague their mutual border...
Chernenko cited four issues he thought the Reagan Administration could act on to convince the Soviets of its seriousness about resuming broader talks. The steps are to negotiate a ban on the militarization of space, a mutual freeze on nuclear weaponry, ratification by the U.S. of two pending test-ban treaties signed in the mid-1970s and a joint pledge to renounce the first use of nuclear weapons, a promise that is already embraced by the Soviets. Said Chernenko: "If what the President has said about readiness to negotiate is not merely a tactical move, I wish to state that...
...small Renaissance palace set in the gardens behind St. Peter's Basilica in Rome, Agostino Cardinal Casaroli, the Vatican Secretary of State, presided as representatives of Argentina and Chile signed copies of a document marking the end of almost six years of mediation and decades of mutual hostility. The dispute involved the Beagle Channel, which lies at the southern tip of South America. The settlement clarifies each country's territorial and water rights in the waterway and recognizes Chilean sovereignty over three main channel islands, as well as seven smaller ones...
Both men were lavish in their mutual praise. Emerging on the portico facing the Rose Garden, a beaming Reagan declared, "Our ties remain unbreakable." He said that in the short time Peres has been in office he has taken "bold and wide-ranging steps" to improve the overheated Israeli economy. Those steps include a cut of $1 billion from Israel's $23 billion budget, a ban on the import of luxury goods like cars and major appliances, and a clampdown on the amount of money Israelis may spend abroad (from $2,000 to $1,000). Replied Peres: "I found...