Word: relationship
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fact, we are enormously powerful, with strength sufficient to deter any nuclear attack, and with a lead in many important measures of capability--such as in strategic nuclear warheads, where the U.S. leads 9000 to 4500. However, regaining dominant superiority in the strategic relationship over a determined adversary is impossible for either side. Instead, we have to adjust to the ambiguities of mutual deterrence and military equivalence, and have to restrain each side's weapons competition through balanced agreements which preserve our essential national security. --Sen. John C. Culver '54 [D-Iowa...
There was certainly a sense in Middle East capitals that more than mere military hardware was at stake in the Senate. Declared Sadat: "The true value of the deal does not lie in the "number or types of planes approved but in overcoming a situation created by the special relationship between the U.S. and Israel...
...have done well in establishing human rights as an issue on the agenda. Today there isn't a government which doesn't realize that human rights affects their relationship with us. By and large, on every continent there has been some progress-and more in the past year, thanks to this policy, than in preceding years...
...would agree that we have not done well enough in developing a North-South economic program. But we have improved the nature of the political relationship with the Third World and the way the Third World perceives...
...general, is the way it used to be identified. President Carter has identified the U.S. with change in world affairs, thereby giving us the opportunity to shape the nature of change and provide the framework for it. That's a fundamentally important consideration, in terms of the U.S. relationship with the world as a whole. The U.S. in the past was perceived as being antichange-and perhaps occasionally...