Word: prior
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...assistance is the key to maintaining its present strong position in Indochina. For Moscow, the partnership keeps China off-balance and helps the Soviets gain influence in all of Southeast Asia. But fiercely independent Viet Nam is no complaisant puppet. Some Western experts believe that Hanoi did not seek prior approval from Moscow before invading Cambodia in December 1978 to unseat the Pol Pot regime. They also think that if it came to a truly hard choice-accepting further Soviet aid at the cost of forsaking their own goals-the Vietnamese would bite the bullet, as it were...
...limitation talks. Soviet President Brezhnev has indicated a willingness to begin discussions with NATO on mutual reductions of European-based missiles. But he also insisted on the inclusion of British and French nukes in SALT III talks-if and when they get under way. Paris and London have given prior warning that they will not put their missiles on the bargaining table at SALT III. If this position holds, U.S. missiles might have to be traded off in their place, further weakening the American umbrella and driving a potential wedge between the U.S. and its allies. That would...
...Prosecution of the Defendant upon this Indictment is barred... in that a justice of the Superior Court department for Middlesex determined prior to the showing that the film was not obscene." Kenneth Tatarian, Hagen's attorney, argues in the motions submitted yesterday...
...added, however, that he could "not understand" how the pair could be convicted of "knowingly disseminating obscene matter" in light of Alberti's ruling prior to the showing...
...there is a need for the dialogue between East and West. It is important in these times to underscore the firm position of the Federal Republic of Germany in the Western alliance. We think it necessary that the Soviet Union should at last declare its readiness to enter without prior conditions into negotiations on medium-range systems, and that possibility should be sought for disarmament and arms control in other sectors. We, the West, want equilibrium at the lowest possible level of armaments. But we shall not hesitate to secure equilibrium by our own efforts if it cannot be achieved...