Word: part
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...SALT, for example. While the White House would try to gear our response to overall Soviet conduct, the rest of our Government would find innumerable ways, from press leaks to informal hints, to let it be known that it was ready, nay eager, to start talking. Thus the better part of our first year was spent in convincing both the Soviets and our own bureaucracy that we intended to base our negotiations on a calculation of the national interest, not abstract slogans, and on strict reciprocity, not "gestures" or "signals." By the end of 1969 it seemed that the careful...
...believe that part of Brezhnev sincerely sought, if not peace in the Western sense, then surcease from the danger and risks and struggles of a lifetime. When I met him he had gone through the Stalin purges of the '30s (indeed, his first big jump up the ladder took place then), the Second World War, a new wave of purges, the power struggle following the death of Stalin and the intrigue that led to the overthrow of Khrushchev and catapulted Brezhnev to the top. He seemed at once exuberant and spent, eager to prevail but at minimum risk...
...ship carrying two 80-ft. barges. The tender and the barges were of a type normally used for servicing nuclear submarines. The composition of this task force was so unprecedented that something more than a courtesy visit seemed to be involved. Suddenly, a succession of events over the better part of a year began to take on a new significance...
...cannot yet write about Viet Nam except with pain and sadness." So begins Part 2 of TIME'S excerpts from Henry Kissinger's memoirs, an inside the White House view of the battles and bombings, the protests and posturings, the secret negotiations and public proclamations that finally led, in January 1973, to the signing of a peace treaty...
...look at Chrysler was in part a tactic to win greater sympathy for the automaker in its drive to get as much as $1.2 billion in federal loan guarantees. The company needs an infusion of funds by year's end in order to launch work on its 1981 models. Treasury Secretary G. William Miller has asked for revisions in the Chrysler rescue proposal. In rejecting the initial request, which would leave the taxpayers holding the bag if Chrysler defaulted on loans from private bankers, Miller bridled not only at the size of the financial package but also...