Word: salts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Soviets have us coming and going. They put troops in Cuba, we panic, and they agree to remove their troops if we sign the SALT II agreement. That's what I call strategy...
This information is just what the SALT II critics have been waiting for in order to kill the treaty. The SALT II treaty is the product of hard work by devoted individuals and many concessions by both sides. It would be a pity for it all to be discarded merely because of the timing of an announcement concerning a virtually harmless Soviet brigade in Cuba...
...Carter's top security aides began rolling through the gates to let off their passengers at the West Wing entrance. When the summons had gone out from Carter, the officials were scattered across the capital. National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski had just delivered a pep talk for the SALT II accords at the posh Cosmos Club. He dashed off before he had a chance to eat, then ordered his driver to stop at a McDonald's, where he picked up a hamburger and a root beer. He arrived at the White House clutching the paper bag and wolfed...
...considering opening only one new low-level disposal site--the Lions, Kan., salt mines, once ruled unfit to store high-grade nuclear waster...
However, Adam B. Ulam, Gurner Professor of History and Political Science, said yesterday Carter "probably decided he was going to make a speech before he knew what to say." He added the message only "dampens prospects for SALT II ratification...