Word: pacts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hundreds of hours on Capitol Hill briefing Senators and conducting seminars to explain the "justice and timeliness" of the treaty. Linowitz even had lunch with Reagan. "I don't think I persuaded him," admits the diplomat, "and I'm sure he didn't persuade me." The opposition to the pact, says Linowitz, "is not only one of emotionalism; it is one of great ignorance on the part of the American people." The treaty, he feels, "will indeed preserve those interests which are important...
Carter wasted no time coming to the support of the agreement. He got on the phone from Plains to more than a dozen congressional leaders to ask for help in winning approval of the pact. He put his top troubleshooter, Hamilton Jordan, in charge of steering the treaty through Congress?the toughest assignment Jordan has been given since getting Carter elected. A White House task force under Jordan fired off wires to all 534 members of Congress, urging them to approach the treaty with open minds. White House emissaries were planning to ask for help from Gerald Ford, Nelson Rockefeller...
...could the walkout occur in an industry governed by a no-strike pact? ENA permits strikes over local issues, like job assignments, and some of these are involved in the ore walkout. But the big issue is a miners' demand that they collect incentive payments for increased production, as 85,000 workers in steel mills do. To U.S.W. officials in Pittsburgh, who gave their permission for locals at twelve mines to strike, whether any particular mill or mine grants incentive payments is a local issue, unrelated to the general wage level set by national contracts negotiated under...
...with approval from the strong pro-Israel bloc in Congress-the U.S. will sell Egypt 14 C-130 transports, worth $180 million, to replace aging Soviet equipment. Among other uses, the planes could ferry Egyptian troops to the Sudan if necessary, since the two nations have a mutual defense pact. Cairo will also buy reconnaissance drones and sophisticated aerial cameras. President Carter promised in addition to look after Sudan's "legitimate defense needs." A U.S. military team will fly to Khartoum in August to assess Numeiry's plea for U.S.-built F-5E fighter planes. Requests from Chad...
...backlash against the entire arms control process." Answering Moscow's complaints about his determination to develop the cruise missile, he reiterated that the U.S. would certainly limit its strategic weapons buildup if the Soviets did the same. But if Moscow persists in holding out against a SALT pact, he warned, "the U.S. can and will do what it must to protect its security and ensure the adequacy of its strategic posture." That line drew thumping applause in Charleston, but to Russian ears it must have sounded like a threat to resume the arms race...