Word: preventable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...AUDIENCE was not allowed outside during intermission, probably to prevent any last minute assault by suicide stink-bomb squads. Most of the audience poured out into the Wang Center's stuffy lobby, sipping over-priced Coca Colas and complaining about the protesters...
...British nuclear issue was also joined last week from an unfamiliar direction. Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger, in a taped interview with the BBC scheduled for broadcast early this week, criticized the Labor Party for demanding that Britain scrap its nuclear arsenal, ban U.S. nuclear bases and prevent U.S. ships carrying nuclear arms from entering British waters. If a future Labor government should put such policies into operation, Weinberger warned, the result could be the dismantling of NATO. Labor Leader Neil Kinnock, whose fellow party members are expected to reaffirm a no-nukes stand this week at their annual conference...
...overwhelmingly approved a revised version by a vote of 308 to 77, the final disposition of the measure may be settled at last. Attention will focus on the Senate, which passed the bill in August by a vote of 84 to 14. To reach the 34 votes necessary to prevent the Senate from overriding Reagan's veto, the White House needed to persuade 20 Senators to change their minds and support the President. At week's end congressional observers thought the President had the support of no more than 28 Senators total, half a dozen short of the number needed...
When Nicholas Daniloff was ensnared four weeks ago in a KGB trap, it was thought the tense game of pawns that ensued would prevent any progress on arms control or toward a Soviet-American summit. Instead, something quite different occurred. Movement on arms control increased, and so did hopes for a year-end meeting between Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev. As a result, the dog seemed to wag the tail for a change: the desire to reach an accord on the major issues dividing the superpowers created an eagerness to resolve, as quickly as face-saving maneuvers would allow...
...first became obvious on Sept. 19, after Shevardnadze arrived in Washington for his long-delayed talks with Shultz and an unscheduled call on Reagan in the Oval Office. Though much of the discussion was taken up by stern American lectures about Daniloff, neither Reagan nor Shultz let the dispute prevent progress on arms control. Shevardnadze handed Reagan a personal letter from Gorbachev replying to arms- control proposals the President had made in July. The Soviet Foreign Minister also hinted at further concessions toward an INF agreement. He and Shultz wound up their meetings expressing unexpected optimism about prospects...