Word: pledgees
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Two letters that Reagan sent-one urging resumption of the arms talks and the other giving his personal pledge assuring athletes' protection at the Los Angeles Olympics-were rudely rejected. Efforts at lower levels to revive cultural accords have also been rebuffed. "We may have to face up to...
Jackson also hinted at a softening of his demand that the party pledge itself to abolish the runoff primary system, which in nine Southern states and Oklahoma requires a second primary if no candidate wins a majority in the first. Campaigning in Texas last week, he spoke of creating a...
The noisy debate over the delegate committees and their PAC money at times threatened to submerge the substantive issues of the campaign. The amount of money in dispute is probably no more than $500,000; Mondale is expected to spend a total of $24.2 million before the convention. But more...
French law gives the National Assembly the right to ask questions about the operations of the intelligence services, but the government's usual, and accepted, answer is a blank "secret de la défense. The West German Bundestag does have a watchdog committee for that nation's...
Without giving China any credit, the Soviet Union in 1982 in a pronouncement by Leonid Brezhney formally adopted a "no first use" policy. As recently as March 1984 Moscow has reiterated this pledge and hinted broadly that a similar declaration by the US would bring it back to the negotiating...