Word: shultz
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Secretary of State George P. Shultz contended at yesterday's Tercentenary Theater convocation that oppressive monitoring of Soviet citizens hamstrings that nation's attempts to develop new technology...
...week's end it became obvious that the Administration was virtually declaring SALT dead--killed, it claimed, by repeated Soviet violations. Reagan's rhetoric, and follow-up comments by Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger and Secretary of State George Shultz, indicated that last week's announcement amounted to a major shift in U.S. policy. It was a change that incurred the wrath of many of America's NATO allies as well as the Soviet Union, and may have hurt chances of a second Reagan-Gorbachev summit this year...
...Shultz, though he has long been an advocate of sticking with SALT II, was blunt. At a meeting of NATO foreign ministers in Halifax, N.S., he described the agreement, which would have expired in 1985, as "obsolete, unratified and being violated." He stressed that the Administration is interested in drastic reductions in nuclear arsenals and said that from now on the U.S. will decide its arms policy on Soviet behavior, including human rights violations and actions in Afghanistan, Nicaragua and Cambodia...
Nitze, who has had a major influence on U.S.national security policy in a variety of positionssince before the Cold War, II, served until 1982as President Reagan's chief arms negotiator onintermediate range missiles in Europe. He nowadvises the president and Secretary of StateGeorge P. Shultz on arms control issues...
...ongoing struggle in the countryside remains the principal concern of Washington, which has seemed decidedly cool toward the Aquino government. On his way to meet the new President two weeks ago, U.S. Secretary of State George Shultz declared, without much conviction, "Well, I assume she's in control." Nonetheless, the Administration has been increasingly impressed with the calm authority of the former homemaker, and recently pledged an additional $150 million in aid to Manila. "She's surprising us in some ways," said one Washington official. "She also seems clearly preferable to any of the alternatives." That much has been underlined...