Word: pacts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Warsaw Pact meeting in Sofia, Bulgaria, last week was to have been the first gathering of the seven-member organization's top leaders since January 1983. It was considered particularly significant since it followed the resumption of U.S.-Soviet arms talks. Then came the brief announcement from TASS: the conference had been postponed. To many Kremlin watchers, there was only one possible explanation, as voiced by a senior British diplomat: "A deterioration in Soviet President Konstantin Chernenko's health...
...stockholders in the two firms would trade their shares one for one for stock in a new holding company. Under the terms, according to sources at Occidental, Diamond Shamrock would have become a wholly owned subsidiary of the new company. On Sunday night, Hammer and Bricker announced a tentative pact...
...what they most wanted: a U.S. commitment to discuss Star Wars in the same general forum with offensive weapons. If it could not hold Star Wars off the table entirely, Washington had wanted to keep talks on offensive and defensive systems separate. Its hope was to conclude a pact that would sharply reduce the numbers of missiles and warheads without agreeing to any limit on the Star Wars program. But even if the Soviets should agree to deep cuts in offensive weapons, the formula worked out at Geneva gives them a chance to demand that defensive systems also be limited...
...imagined a time when those weapons could be rendered "impotent and obsolete" by deploying an array of kinetic-energy projectiles, lasers, directed particle beams or other exotic devices that would prevent enemy warheads from ever reaching their targets. No more threat of intercontinental mass homicide, no more superpower suicide pact, no more Mutual Assured Destruction. In place of that MADness would be pure protection: a defense that defends and a deterrence that deters by threatening to destroy weapons, not people...
There was some speculation last fall that Ogarkov might have taken over command of the western forces of the Warsaw Pact or that he had been appointed head of the Voroshilov Academy of the General Staff in Moscow. The obituary, however, placed his name alongside those of the chiefs of the Main Political Directorate of the Armed Forces, which oversees the Communist Party's control over the military. If Ogarkov has indeed become a sort of political commissar, it would be an ironic appointment for a career officer with a reputation for being at odds with the party's views...