Word: salt
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Dinner is a family affair, with Kennedy, a meat-and-potatoes man, sometimes acting as chef. A favorite: steaks with lots of Worcestershire sauce, salt and pepper. He drinks wine with his meals and takes a Scotch and soda or two at night. After dinner he often plays charades or other parlor games with the children until about 9:30, when he turns to his attache case for bedtime reading...
...SALT II gets needed boost
...official. Senate Majority Leader Robert Byrd, who has spent months in public doubting and questioning, is now backing the SALT II treaty. To reporters crowded into a Senate conference room last week, the powerful West Virginia Democrat declared that the strategic arms pact with Moscow "is in our national interest" and could "help diminish the potential for nuclear destruction." Though widely anticipated, this clear-cut endorsement gave SALT II a badly needed boost. Without Byrd's active support, the treaty would have little chance of winning the two-thirds vote required for Senate approval. To be sure, passage still...
...this campaign, Byrd has prepared himself extensively. He says that he has exhaustively studied the seven-year history of the SALT II negotiations and has read every line of the proposed treaty, a 209-page secret report about the ability of the U.S. to monitor Soviet compliance with SALT, and transcripts of the three Senate committees that have been hearing testimony on the pact. He has also discussed SALT's details and geopolitical significance with, among others, Jimmy Carter, Gerald Ford, Henry Kissinger, heads of several NATO countries, and, during a special summer visit to the Soviet Union, Communist...
...part of his strategy, Byrd is demanding that "certain provisions" be included in the Senate resolution approving the treaty. Unlike the "killer" amendments that are being proposed by SALT's critics, Byrd's measures would require no new bargaining with Moscow. But they could eliminate some ambiguities in the treaty that have been troubling a number of Senators. Among other things, Byrd wants the ratifying resolution to state explicitly that Senate approval would be required for any extension, beyond its scheduled expiration at the end of 1981, of the protocol that is to limit such key weapons...