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Despite the predictable applause, Midwest farmers would have much preferred a new, long-term pact with Moscow that would guarantee sales over several years and assure them of a buyer for their bulging surpluses. Reagan's decision clearly left most of them disappointed. The extension permits the Soviet Union to buy a minimum of 6 million tons of corn and wheat, but requires further consultation between Washington and Moscow for a deal of more than 8 million tons. Farmers believe that the U.S. could easily sell Moscow as much as 23 million tons over the next year. The U.S.S.R...
...against the interests of President Kennedy or Johnson, Secretary Dean Rusk often would scribble a short plea on note paper and slip it unobtrusively to the man beside him. The message: "Don't make a decision now, Mr. President. Let me see you later." Henry Kissinger had a pact with Gerald Ford to meet at least a half-hour every working day the two were in the same city. "It could not be that a President and a Secretary of State, who between them hold the predominant position in Government, had nothing to say to each other," recalls Kissinger...
...want our neighbors to be stable and strong. Nothing is so dangerous as a weak neighbor. You just do not know what they will do. Throughout the years, we have taken all the initiatives. My father [Jawaharlal Nehru, India's first Prime Minister] offered a no-war pact in 1949, and in different forms the offer has been repeated. Then we signed the Simla Agreement [a 1972 accord that calls for the two countries to negotiate their differences], but they did not want the words no war used. Now suddenly, along with the purchase of the F16, President...
...began in 1974, involved diplomats from 154 countries. The document covers issues ranging from the definition of an island to pollution safeguards. It guarantees freedom of passage on the high seas and sets a twelve-mile territorial limit and 200-mile "economic," or fishing, zone for coastal nations. The pact also spells out strict rules for seabed mining and establishes an International Seabed Authority to govern the harvesting of ocean minerals. That organization would set up its own mining enterprises, retaining mine sites equal in size or value to every site awarded to private companies; those firms would be required...
...treaty's signers. Reagan was displeased by a proviso that some of the U.N. enterprises' profits, intended for distribution to the Third World, could end up in the hands of a terrorism-tainted group like the P.L.O. He also opposed a rule that said the pact could be amended, possibly against America's wishes, by a two-thirds vote of participating nations. A top State Department official insisted that the U.S. "made every possible effort and then some" to strike a compromise, but gave up after most of the other nations refused to budge. The U.S. mining...