Word: predecessors
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...Reagan proposal. Mindful of the Soviet Union's outright, not to say contemptuous, rejection of President Jimmy Carter's 1977 proposal for deep cuts in strategic arms, the Administration is determined to avoid what it considers to have been Carter's principal error. Unlike his predecessor, Reagan will not announce a fallback position in advance. Still, the President said in his speech that the U.S. delegation would "listen to and consider the proposals of our Soviet counterparts." Arriving at Geneva airport last week, Nitze declared: "I'm going to be reasonable-and tough...
Under both President Reagan and his predecessor Jimmy Carter, the State Department argued that once the pipeline entered service in 1984, Western Europe would become vulnerable to threatened Soviet gas cutoffs. Moscow will eventually be shipping 40 billion cubic meters of gas annually to Western Europe, or about one-fourth of the area's estimated natural-gas needs. Warned Assistant Secretary of State Robert Hormats: "In the past, the Soviet Union has used energy exports as a political lever, interrupting supplies to Yugoslavia, Israel and China, among others." Only last month, Myer Rashish, the Under Secretary of State...
Reagan tried to distinguish his proposal from a similar but ill-fated attempt by his predecessor to offer something novel to the Soviets. In March 1977, Jimmy Carter sent Cyrus Vance to Moscow with an ambitious scheme to redirect the SALT talks by asking the Soviets to make deep cuts in their existing arsenal of intercontinental ballistic missiles. Like Reagan, Carter had outlined his proposals in public before submitting them formally to the Soviets. Also like Reagan, Carter hoped that the Soviets could be persuaded to dismantle existing weaponry in exchange for U.S. promises not to deploy a planned system...
...makes you know it is foolproof." No major opera house has yet produced a Thomson opera, and the composer is puzzled by the neglect. But in the long run he is philosophical: "I agree with one French critic who said that I am essentially a predecessor." Of what? That is for his successors to decide. "Some artists close things," says Thomson. "I am the kind who opens things...
...primarily the result of the tight-money policy adopted by Paul Volcker, chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, before Reagan took office-though they note Reagan has supported that policy. Some also see the slump as a delayed effect of the vacillating economic strategy of Reagan's predecessor. "I call it a Reagan-Volcker-Carter recession," says Economist Walter Heller, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers in the 1960s...