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Word: pacts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...embarrassingly inept. Says Birch Bayh, chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence: "Technologically, it's unbelievable what we have the capacity to do. Our weakness is what we do with the information when we get it. We know the number of tanks belonging to the Warsaw Pact powers, but we want to know where they will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: Strengthening the CIA | 4/30/1979 | See Source »

Glenn at first concluded that the U.S., by using spy satellites and listening posts on the U.S.S.R.'s border, could sufficiently monitor Soviet compliance with the arms pact. But he no longer thinks so. At Groton he said that because of the loss of two CIA intelligence-gathering stations in Iran, "very serious doubts have been cast on our ability to adequately verify the agreements." In the deleted portion of his speech he was going to add that there are major problems with the substitutes the Administration is considering for the lost listening posts. One is to establish ground...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Some Pepper for SALT | 4/23/1979 | See Source »

...wealthy mother (Beatrice Straight), wearing more eyelashes than all the Gabors combined. Mom doesn't like Nancy because Nancy's Dad, long deceased, was once an armed robber. But Mom will fork over the hundred grand if Nancy agrees to stay away from Michael for ever. The pact is sealed, and Nancy gets some new flesh to go with her stitches. With the help of a shrink, she even man ages to keep her head while losing her face. That would be that, but ... Enter "the promise." Earlier in the film, Michael had given Nancy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: In Stitches | 4/23/1979 | See Source »

...added the pact could meet opposition particularly from trade unions that inhibit labor mobility necessary to increase productivity...

Author: By Daniel A. Carroll, | Title: Twenty-One Countries Sign Agreement to Lower Tariffs | 4/18/1979 | See Source »

John E. Ray, director of the office of international trade, said yesterday it remains to be seen how well the agreement will work and that the pact has a good chance for ratification in Congress...

Author: By Daniel A. Carroll, | Title: Twenty-One Countries Sign Agreement to Lower Tariffs | 4/18/1979 | See Source »

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