Word: optioning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...missiles in Western Europe. If the Soviets would remove their missiles pointed at Western Europe, NATO would remove the missiles in Western Europe. A President with a cowboy fixation got tough with the evil empire. His PR men changed the plan's name. "Two track" became "Zero Option," and the quiche-eater was pushed out of the spotlight...
...problem with "Zero Option" was that some people in Western Europe were more worried about their own missiles than the ones that were pointed at them. But the cowboy stuck to his guns...
When, in 1981, President Reagan first proposed the zero option, a plan to eliminate longer-range INF (LRINF) missiles, we had not yet deployed a single weapon of this type. The Soviets were not willing to bargain. In 1983 we proposed an interim agreement: equal U.S. and Soviet levels worldwide below NATO's planned deployment of 572 LRINF warheads. The Soviets still said no. By last October a sizable number of the U.S. missiles was in place...
...hate to admit it, but Gorbachev is giving the arms-control talks fresh and helpful impulses. He is putting forth concessions that no other Soviet leader has ever made. If the U.S. does not respond soon, a historical chance will be missed. We have no option: we have to accept Gorbachev's offers...
...half the nation' s illegal aliens while making it harder for the rest to live and work in the U. S. -- Texas Billionaire H. Ross Perot launches a private probe into what he believes is a network of former CIA agents and military officials. -- Richard Nixon analyzes the zero option. -- An unwanted garbage barge hunts for a friendly dump...