Word: sovietism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...presence of the troops. As chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, Church had been counted on by the Administration to direct the drive for the two-thirds vote SALT II needs for Senate approval. But Church now threatens to hold up the treaty until the issue of the Soviet troops has been settled. Protested one pro-SALT Senator: "The s.o.b. has sold us out for his own private purpose." Said another: "Whatever credibility Church had as chairman is gone." Back in Idaho, Church has been ridiculed by one of his traditional backers. Bill Hall, the Lewiston, Idaho, Tribune...
...shaking and trembling" about Cuba. He insists that the Senate will consider and vote on the treaty by Thanksgiving. Byrd also has met separately with at least two dozen fellow Senators, pleading with them to consider SALT II on its merits and not link it with the issue of Soviet troops. But despite these efforts, the Senate's Democratic leadership concedes that it does not yet have enough votes to assure SALT's approval. Indeed, veteran Capitol Hill watchers feel that SALT's chances for Senate O.K. are now poor and getting worse...
...Pope was expected to chastise developed nations in the West for conspicuous overconsumption and for not providing more help to poor nations. Vatican officials suggested that the Pope might also speak out against dictatorships of the right and the left and condemn both the West and the Soviet Union for selling weapons to Third World countries...
...time and through attainable stages and those who are concerned with truth and the eternal. I found it easier to respect these committed and consistent pacifists, who hated all killing, than those whose morality was selective, who condemned American military actions but not North Vietnamese or Indian or Soviet...
...Sino-Soviet powwow amid continuing frictions...