Word: pact
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...treaty is in what Alaska's Ted Stevens, a Republican opponent, calls a "never-never land," a standoff in which treaty backers have enough votes to block crippling amendments or a filibuster but lack the 67 votes that constitute the two-thirds majority needed to approve the pact...
...minutes, he addressed a group of Congressmen, Senators and other dignitaries, speaking somberly and forcefully and glancing frequently in the direction of Scoop Jackson, the most outspoken of the SALT opponents. The President appealed to the Senate to back the agreement as "a matter of common sense." Without the pact, he said, the U.S. would be pushed into "an uncontrolled and pointless nuclear arms race." The President said "neither side obtained everything that it sought" in the negotiations, and argued that "the package that did emerge is a carefully balanced whole, and it will make the world a safer place...
...Jones, and two other members, Air Force General Lew Allen Jr. and Admiral Thomas Hayward, support the treaty, and they have some reservations. The other two members, Army General Bernard Rogers and Marine General Louis Wilson, are even less enthusiastic and so far have held back from endorsing the pact...
...pact's most ardent opponents intend to block the treaty by attempting to pass "killer amendments." Utah Republican Jake Gam will offer a package that would amount to a substitute treaty. Said he of the one signed in Vienna: "Whatever else it is, it is not arms control." His feeling is shared by an unlikely ally, Liberal Democrat George McGovern of South Dakota, an advocate of disarmament who feels that SALT II does not go nearly far enough. "I don't think SALT II is worth fighting over," he said. "We ought to just scrap...
...threaten Hanoi with a cutoff in aid, which now amounts to $50 million, if it allows Cam Ranh Bay to become a Soviet base. Last week the five ASEAN states of Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia and the Philippines poured cold water on Hanoi's offer of a nonaggression pact. The pact was apparently designed to allay ASEAN fears that have been raised by the Vietnamese invasion of Cambodia, but Hanoi's prospective partners in the treaty would have none of it. Malaysia, which is probably Viet Nam's closest friend in ASEAN, pointedly noted that if Hanoi...