Word: returns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...should reject the treaty," he says flatly. "We should add $4 billion or $5 billion to the defense budget." Nitze believes that accepting SALT II as it now stands could be "the point of no return" for the U.S., a point after which the nation would be locked into trends that would assure the Soviets nuclear superiority...
...convictions followed a 21-day trial in which the Government's star witness was the cool, enigmatic, self-described leader of the assassination squad, Michael Vernon Townley, 36, an American who cooperated with the prosecution in return for a lenient sentence of three years and four months. Townley testified that Letelier's murder had been ordered by General Manuel Contreras Sepulveda, chief of the now defunct Chilean secret police, DINA. According to Townley, Contreras had demanded the killing because Letelier, a socialist, was considered a dangerous opponent of Augusto Pinochet Ugarte's military regime...
Bazargan agreed that the military planes could land at Tehran's Mehrabad Airport in an emergency. The Prime Minister said he was sorry the Americans had decided to leave, and his Foreign Minister, Karim Sanjabi, said he hoped they would be able to return soon. Given the range of uncertainties in Iran today, the U.S. obviously felt it should take the more prudent course...
...wife Colene and other guests waiting more than two hours for a formal dinner while he and Brown held what was later described as a "frank and fervent" discussion. All went smoothly until Israel became the subject: the King reportedly was adamant about the need for guarantees of the return of the West Bank and East Jerusalem to Arab sovereignty, and for a satisfactory resolution of the problem of Jewish settlements in the occupied territories...
...discussions among Vance, Dayan and Khalil. Neither the Israelis nor the Egyptians will have authority to make final decisions on the language of the treaty. If Begin's Cabinet is satisfied by Dayan's report on the first round of talks, it will authorize Dayan to return to the U.S. to negotiate the finishing touches of the draft treaty. If this succeeds, the documents could then be signed by Begin and Egyptian President Anwar Sadat in early March...