Word: pacts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...conservatives opposing the pact have used Senate rules, which are designed to protect the minority, to delay a vote on the pact signed Dec. 8 by Reagan and Gorbachev...
When the Senate finally votes on the pact, ratification is assured, Dole noted, because only 67 votes are required. "The question is how many votes are going to be for it," he said. "Is it going to be 94, 95, 92? It's not even close...
...Marie Le Pen, the other "winner" of the election, with a surprising 14.5% of the vote in the first round, declared full and outright opposition. Le Pen, who on election night pugnaciously called the rest of the political right "suicidal" and the "dumbest in the world" for refusing a pact with him, thrust himself forward as leader of the "national, popular opposition" and the "only real alternative to Socialist power...
...Senate postponed debate on the treaty Monday while some members accused Moscow of backsliding and leaving loopholes for cheating. But Shultz said the differences over verifying compliance with the pact were a result of implementing an unprecedented system of onsite inspection...
...pact on intermediate-range missiles is unprecedented in its provisions for on-site inspection to guard against infractions. It also is the first U.S.-Soviet agreement to eliminate an entire category of nuclear weapons...