Word: sketchiest
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When Nitze went to Geneva to open the negotiations at the end of November, he had only the sketchiest instructions. The bureaucracy back in Washington was still bickering over the details of the U.S. position. While waiting for those issues to be resolved, Nitze prepared a series of general opening statements, but Haig's aide Burt insisted that even these be cleared in ad vance by Washington. Nitze balked...