Word: shielding
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...subpoenaed records, we shall continue to support the protection of confidential sources. We do so with the knowledge that forty-nine states and the District of Columbia now recognize some form of protection for confidential sources, and that legislation is now pending in Congress to enact a federal shield law for confidential sources...
...complete elimination of all ballistic missiles from the respective arsenals of both nations." It was the Soviet leader, Reagan said, who balked. "The General Secretary said he would consider our offer only if we restricted all work on SDI to laboratory research, which would have killed our defensive shield...
...simply could not have given in on the SDI issue. "In the end, with great reluctance, the President, having worked so hard, creatively and constructively for these potentially tremendous achievements, simply had to refuse to compromise the security of the U.S., of our allies and freedom by abandoning the shield that has held in front of freedom." White House Chief of Staff Donald Regan put the failure in more direct language: "We got 99 yards but didn't score. It was the Soviets who fumbled the ball...
Ever since Reagan announced his plan in 1983 for "rendering these nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete" through a space-based shield of missile-killing satellites, the Soviets have seemed almost fixated on blocking the plan. Partly, experts speculate, it is because they fear the U.S. has a strong advantage in developing new technologies. Also, the Soviets see their arsenal of missiles as fundamental to protection of their homeland and their status as a world superpower...
Meanwhile, the superpowers have passed in the night on the issue of strategic defense. In March 1983 Reagan proclaimed his dream of a comprehensive, impregnable, space-based shield that would render offensive nuclear forces "impotent and obsolete." He has argued that deterrence based on the threat of retaliation is immoral and a "defense that really defends" is benevolent, an eerie echo of Kosygin's rebuttal to McNamara at Glassboro. Proponents of the Strategic Defense Initiative charge that the Soviet offensive buildup proves that the U.S.S.R. never really accepted the logic of McNamara's argument and has violated the spirit...