Word: specializes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...SALT. But Christmas came late, and history had to wait. Only last week, when Secretary of State Cyrus Vance and Soviet Ambassador Anatoli Dobrynin reached a general agreement on the proposed treaty, could Talbott complete his project. Talbott's narrative, part of this week's 15-page Special Report on SALT, is accompanied by Associate Editor Burton Pines' appraisal of the terms of the treaty and an assessment of the great Senate debate ahead...
...talks, and some Soviets-refused to be identified as informants. "The SALT record is classified," explains Talbott, "and participants were constrained from publicizing what they knew." Talbott managed nevertheless to fill his "SALT notebook"- overfill it, to be precise. His expanded version of this week's Special Report will be published by Harper & Row as Endgame: The Inside Story of SALT II. Is that the last word? Not at all, says Talbott. "Preparations for SALT III are already under...
This was a boat with character. From nine-year rowing veteran Cooley to novice cox Dixon to second-year-model-of-dedication-stroke Corty Gates, this eight was a special blend...
...solutions. Business does have the right to get its views across. Some first steps that have suggested are federal chartering of corporations, public financing of Congressional elections and strict lobbying disclosure laws. It seems clear that something must be done. We must not allow corporations, by virtue of their special financial status, to dominate access to the media, to the electoral process and to our politicians. We must not allow the voices of ordinary citizens to be drowned out in the name of free speech...
...words of Justice Bazelon's Court of Appeals opinion in the same case, though reversed by the Supreme Court, now resonate with a special prescience: "To the extent that uncertainties necessarily underlie predictions of this importance on the frontiers of science and technology, there is a concomitant necessity to confront and explore fully the depth of such uncertainties." The Supreme Court thought otherwise and gagged the public...