Word: soils
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ministers in Bonn. The ministers were sufficiently impressed to urge Weinberger to make the study public so they could use it to defuse opposition in their own countries to hikes in defense spending, as well as to the planned basing of U.S. Pershing II and cruise missiles on European soil...
...NATO and despite a reputation for laxity--a long-hair and unionized army--it has always been a solid citizen of the alliance. But the Dutch never took much interest in the politics of the Cold War, hoping that the missiles, if they ever flew, would pass over European soil...
...Ehrlich's case histories really back up their hypothetical arguments. They call attention to the diversity of organisms: "A gram of fertile agricultural soil has yielded over 30,000 one-celled animals, 50,000 algae, 400,000 fungi, and over 2.5 billion bacteria." Yet they fail to show how man is currently destroying his own food basket. They note briefly that other civilizations, like those in the Tigris and Euphrates valleys, could not maintain their irrigation systems properly and withered away with their crops. But history, no matter how harrowing, does not always parallel the present. The potential catastrophes that...
...helped negotiate SALT I in 1972; the chief Soviet spokesman will be U.A. Kvitsinsky, a career diplomat with no particular expertise in arms-control talks. The negotiations were long expected: in return for persuading its NATO allies in 1979 to base 572 Pershing II and cruise missiles on European soil as a deterrent to the Soviet arsenal of mobile, multiwarhead SS-20 missiles, Washington pledged to start discussions with Moscow on a mutual whittling down of their theater nuclear forces (T.N.F.) on the Continent. The talks promise to drag on for years, with difficult prospects for agreement. Nonetheless...
...still be five times below the 'no effect' level," said an agency spokesman. To that, National Wildlife Federation Toxicologist George Manring retorted: "People may not drop dead from eating one bird. But endrin accumulates over several seasons and from different sources."It also remains in the soil for months and sometimes for years, a fact that led state Health Director John Dry-nan to wonder: "Will endrin end up in our ground water supplies...