Word: reject
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Lest Hinton's words be seen as a sign of weakness or a lack of faith in the government, U.S. officials stressed that any talks would focus not on giving power to the rebels but merely bringing them back into the electoral process. Said Haig: "We have never rejected a negotiated solution. But we mean negotiations by all parties on participation in the democratic process. We reject negotiations that constitute a distribution of national power over the heads of the people of El Salvador...
Advocates of a bilateral nuclear-weapons freeze contend that the plan makes sense, since both the U.S. and the Soviet Union already have large enough arsenals to annihilate each other's populations many times over. Supporters also reject the charge made by hawkish critics that the movement is ultimately a pacifist one that plays into the hands of the Soviets. They point out that the freeze proposal calls for verification. Critics, however, respond by claiming that a freeze on "testing, production and further deployment" of nuclear weapons cannot be verified without on-site inspection, which Moscow has always resisted. Beyond...
...Soviet Union buckled down to the serious pursuit of agreements that would diminish the chances of nuclear war. With only modest successes and numerous stalls and setbacks, that effort continued in earnest until late in the Carter Administration, when it became clear that the Senate would reject the SALT 11 treaty that Carter and Brezhnev had signed...
...James Schlesinger finds it "very dubious" that either of the major powers would really have the psychological capacity to strike first. He doubts the "madman" theory and the idea that missiles might be launched by computer failure. The human minds in charge of today's arsenals will still reject the holocaust as long as there is a fragment of evidence that it doesn't have to happen. There will always be that fragment. Clark Clifford, the Washington sage who has served four Presidents, declares: "It never seriously enters [Presidents'] minds that they really will have...
Smith said that although AI&I shareholders will undoubtedly reject the proposal. Harvard's support of the resolution would serve as "a symbol with meat in it," showing AI&I the increasing "public scrutiny" of its nuclear operations...