Word: pacts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Carter Administration will give its top attention to the issues that directly affect U.S. security. Vance believes that it is imperative to get the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks with the Soviet Union moving again, particularly since the interim SALT pact is due to expire in October. Said he: "It is critical that the SALT talks be given very high priority and be attacked immediately after the Carter Administration comes into office." The talks, he said, should be "approached in a measured way" to resolve the problem of including Soviet Backfire bombers and U.S. Cruise missiles in an agreement. Even while...
...offended Moscow by his frequent and often strident proclamations of his regime's independence from the Soviets. In recent months, however, relations between Rumania and the U.S.S.R. have somewhat improved, as is indicated by the Brezhnev visit. Also significant is the fact that Ceausescu has allowed a Warsaw Pact summit meeting to convene in Bucharest during the Brezhnev visit. The Rumanian leader had always carefully tried to keep as distant as possible from the activities of the Moscow-led military alliance...
...hospitals. He had apparently taken only some ten to 20 pills and was soon back in prison. She had taken more Seconal, plus a second bottle of Dalmane sleeping pills, and was in a critical coma for several days. Prison officials had had reason to suspect a possible suicide pact. Gilmore, who dabbles in poetry as well as drawing, had written Nicole from his cell: "Hang myself? ... I may do that." She had written him that she had practiced suicide by slashing one wrist. "What a wonderful feeling," she said in a letter that officials at the prison read. Extra...
...plan ran into difficulty in Cairo as soon as the meeting was brought to order. Iraq's Foreign Minister Saadun Hammadi, whose government had sent 2,000 troops into Lebanon on the Palestinian side, demanded the full withdrawal of Syrian forces from the country. He denounced the Riyadh pact authorizing them to become part of the post-armistice force. Hammadi's demands plunged the first major Arab summit in two years into a bitter dispute...
...shows last Sunday and the worst whitewashing of the season against the Steelers, Giant owner Wellington Mara and director of player personnel Andy Robustelli decided to cut Arnsparger loose. Despite their 1-6 record, the Jets under new head coach Lou Holtz, who seems secure with a five-year pact, are showing none of the malaise that prompted the Giants' switchover...