Word: salt
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rest. The police pick up Madjid and he stares out the window, listlessly. Adopting Madjid's point of view, the camera travels down the road. Ahead, it spots Pat. Freeze-frame. The final photograph of this film--Pat leaning back and waving, his hair blown back by the salt breeze--is worth sitting through two hours of the most boring piece of trash in the world. After this film, it's just a tremendous and appropriately brilliant finale...
...bombing of Libya in April, in what was described as retaliation for terrorism, prompted the Soviets to cancel a Shevardnadze visit in May. Subsequently, Reagan announced he no longer would observe the unratified 1979 SALT II treaty, which imposed ceilings on various U.S. and Soviet long-range nuclear weapons...
Last week, a U.S. delegation in Geneva informed the Soviets that the 1972 SALT I treaty, which set interim constraints, also would be abandoned...
...agreement by both countries to honor for at least 15 more years the 1972 antiballistic-missi le agreement, which would confine SDI to laboratory research and prohibit development, testing and deployment. As Reagan was taking flak at home and abroad for announcing that he planned to abandon the SALT II treaty, Gorbachev showed new signs of flexibility at the Geneva arms-control talks...
Poindexter botched the handling of an admittedly difficult White House switch on SALT II in May: Reagan's tentative decision to abandon the unratified treaty's limits on various strategic weapons. The NSC chief allowed news of the change to leak from a critical forum: a meeting of NATO foreign ministers. He refused to brief the press on the matter, leaving a less expert White House spokesman, Larry Speakes, to fumble with explanations. Poindexter was also blamed for failing to get the nuances across to the President, who gave highly confusing answers to questions at a press conference...