Word: respondents
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...delay, wrote the President in a letter to Senate Majority Leader Robert Byrd of West Virginia, would allow the White House and the Congress to "assess Soviet actions and intentions, and devote our primary attention to the legislative and other measures required to respond to this crisis." Carter emphasized that SALT's eventual approval by the Senate would be "in the national security interest." The request for a delay was greeted with relief by SALT supporters, a number of whom had feared that there was no chance the arms pact could now win the two-thirds vote required for passage...
...because the Chinese and Soviets obviously have poor relations with each other, we therefore share all of the common interests with the Chinese. We don't." Administration analysts who have observed Soviet anger at every stage of the Sino-U.S. rapprochement are concerned about how the Kremlin might respond if Peking were to receive sophisticated U.S. weapons. It is just possible, say some of these experts, that Moscow could launch a pre-emptive strike against China...
...living gently off his pension and his wife's inheritance. His mind is free to pursue W.H. Auden and Thomas Love Peacock, but his soul, forged at West Point, still hears distant thunder. "Leadership is never good when it is self-conscious," he says. "The President should respond instinctively to events -but the instinct is really educated intellection, and it has to be harnessed to a natural appetite for decision...
...probable that the U.S. citizens will be tried. Those who are judged not guilty will undoubtedly be permitted to leave, but it would be unrealistic to expect the release of the others if the U.S. does not respond positively to the Iranians' grievances...
...benefits of war. While it is imperative that the U.S. must not force a cold war, us-against-them military confrontation, it is equally vital that the U.S. be willing to offer the means of self-defense to nations threatened by Soviet expansionism. In this crisis, the U.S. should respond to requests supported by a broad range of odd international bedfellows by Pakistan and, most importantly, by the Afghan resistance fighters...