Word: salt
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Pass the Salt...
Reader Paul W. Capor [Sept. 10] has a good sense of humor. He sees the oil that has been hitting U.S. beaches because of the accident in the Mexican well as a gift. We Mexicans, however, haven't felt that way about the salt the U.S. has sent us for years, day after day, in the water of the Colorado River. We haven't even been lucky enough to scrape it off our valley...
...straightforward speech to the nation, he largely defused the diplomatic issue, but by no means satisfied all his critics. Nor did he add any much needed decisiveness to his image as a leader. The net result may, in fact, be the loss of some Senate votes for the SALT II treaty...
...President got his priorities in order again. For a while, they were upside down." The trouble started in August, when Senator Frank Church, chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, called a press conference and insisted that the brigade be withdrawn. Otherwise, he said, the Senate would not approve SALT. Secretary of State Cyrus Vance made matters worse by declaring that the U.S. would "not be satisfied with the maintenance of the status quo," a statement that he had worked out with Carter. The Administration was off on a course that nobody intended or wanted, one that could have resulted...
...which started in 1969 as a faculty committee at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, now consists of 26 staff members and 85,000 sponsors, and publishes a quarterly newsletter, "Nucleus," periodically releases declarations of their views on public issues, Johnston said. Next week, UCS will urge the passage of SALT, "not because it is ideal but left without it we are worse off," she added...