Word: mutuals
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this atmosphere of mutual hostility, the commission contended, the relatively new phenomenon of state-supported terrorism poses "an alarming" danger to the Marines. "For a growing number of states," the report concluded, "terrorism has become an alternative means of conducting state business, and the terrorists themselves are agents whose association the state can easily deny...
...negotiating and verification pitfalls, we should settle for a limited, interim agreement. For the time being, I would forgo the more ambitious Reagan proposals for across-the-board reductions, including major cuts in throw-weight and warheads. Instead, I would accept the most recent Soviet counterproposal for a mutual scale-down to 1,800 launchers, but with an added joint limit of, say, 7,500 warheads. Such a simple interim agreement would break the logjam, be easier to verify, provide the basis for a wider treaty later, and we could have it by next summer...
...idea has been endorsed recently by both Mr. Nixon and Mr. Mondale. Our leaders should simply get together once a year for three or so days of truly informal talks so that we gain gradually better understanding of our differences, but without expecting unattainable accommodations. Greater mutual sensitivity to our conflicting positions would in itself help to keep the competition more stable...
...whether this planet can any longer sustain the human race. It follows that Washington and Moscow bear a heavy and special responsibility toward the peace of the world and the survival of the human race. That should be the beginning of any consideration in both capitals of our mutual relations...
Most Americans speak of the Soviets as people they have never seen, except as figures occasionally spotted on television, but a good many are trying to remedy that state of mutual isolation. Some members of the United Church of Christ, for example, invited the Soviets to send a group of visitors on a tour of New England. Last April came a newspaper editor, a Russian Orthodox bishop, a scientist and six others, who stayed in rural homes and ate pot-luck dinners. "It was the first time many of these people had ever done anything like this," says Elizabeth Gardner...