Word: salting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Reagan. I could forgive him for his quip about Martin Luther King and his joke about bombing the Russians. I could forget that this is the man who promised to balance our budget. I could still rally behind him, even though he tried to cut my college aid, broke Salt II and fell asleep during cabinet meetings...
Though Ronald Reagan announced as far back as May that he did not feel obliged to abide by the SALT II limits, the current decision drew sharp criticism from Capitol Hill. "It is unbelievable that at a time when the Administration's foreign policy is in a shambles, they want to complicate the situation by raising another major issue," said Democratic Congressman Norman Dicks of Washington. Democratic Senator Albert Gore of Tennessee predicted that the move would strain relations in the Western alliance and termed it a "mistake in judgment every bit as serious in the long term as shipping...
Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger had long urged Reagan to break SALT II as retaliation for alleged Soviet violations, but State Department officials feared the move would bolster Soviet charges that the U.S. was intent on scuttling arms-control negotiations. Indeed, Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev hinted as much during his visit to India last week, terming the deployment of the B-52 a "major mistake" that called into question the "entire logic of the Reykjavik talks." In Moscow the Foreign Ministry warned that the Soviet Union would be forced to beef up its own nuclear arsenal...
...loss of the Senate, the Iran business seems to have raised basic questions in Moscow about how they should deal with Reagan, whether they need to bargain with him seriously or whether they can just wait for the next President." Reagan's decision last week to abandon the unratified SALT II ceilings on strategic weapons is likely to make Moscow even more standoffish...
...Strategic Defense Initiative, commonly known as Star Wars. Gorbachev told a group of Indian leftists that the plan was a "voracious monster" based on a "fundamentally inhumane" concept. The U.S. decision to deploy another B- 52 bomber capable of carrying nuclear missiles, the Soviet leader said, violated the 1979 SALT II accord and ran counter to the spirit of the October summit...