Word: optioning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ahead and deploy. Who am I to tell you what to do? I think you're wasting money. I don't think it will work. But if that's what you want to do, go ahead." He added ominously: "We are moving in another direction, and we preserve our option to do what we think is necessary and in our own national interest at that time. And we think we can do it less expensively and with greater effectiveness...
Room changes are an option only if the senior advisor cannot help the roommates work out their differences, Worth said. "There are times where it is just impossible for people to coexist. But we really discourage [rooming changes]. We just don't have enough rooms. People should negotiate with their roommates, and learn to have a little toleration...
...first hint that the game might be changing came in 1985, when the Soviets tipped their hand on two critical points. One was the status of SS-20s in Soviet Asia. The U.S. had been insisting that the zero option must be "global in scope": it must eliminate SS-20s in Asia too, since they are mobile weapons that in a crisis could be moved to threaten Europe. In May 1985, Gorbachev publicly suggested that his government would be willing to freeze its SS-20 forces east of the Ural Mountains. Shortly afterward the Soviet delegation in Geneva tabled...
Some Western analysts, however, had growing doubts about whether delinkage and the zero option would necessarily be an unmitigated blessing. A veteran intelligence official cast a pall over an interagency meeting in February by administering what he called a "heavy dose of reality therapy." Consider, he said, the danger posed by a new Soviet ICBM -- the SS-25, a mobile, three- stage, intercontinental version of the two-stage, intermediate-range SS-20. "Not a single one of the SS-20s that Gorbachev will be giving up can hit the U.S., and not a single SS-25 is affected...
...whole nation sized up Gorbachev and Reagan last week on television. This week the two meet to sign a historic arms treaty. -- A look at the evolution of the zero option, from hard- line proposal to reality. -- Raisa and Nancy will get together for coffee, but they won' t like it. -- Everyone seems to support the agreement -- except the Republican right wing. See NATION...