Word: statement
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Administration charges that a number of Soviet actions have violated the essence of detente, as codified by the 1972 statement of Basic Principles signed by Nixon and Brezhnev. This committed the U.S. and U.S.S.R. to prevent situations "capable of causing a dangerous exacerbation of their relations" and "which would serve to increase international tensions." Moscow has ignored that pledge by its military intervention in Ethiopia, persistent attempts to derail Egyptian President Anwar Sadat's Middle East peace initiative, and efforts to discredit the Anglo-American formula for the peaceful transfer of power to the black majority in southern Africa...
...police union said in an official statement that the contract was the best possible deal it could have made, but that it was the best deal it could get from the city at the present time...
...statement issued to the press by representatives of the Navajo, Iroquois and Sioux nations, the Indians accused the federal government of practicing a "clear-cut policy of genocide," as defined by the Geneva Convention...
Within an hour of the Moscow announcement, a State Department spokesman read a carefully crafted statement that had been personally approved by Jimmy Carter: "These trials will be watched closely in the United States. The fate of Mr. Shcharansky and Mr. Ginzburg will be an important indicator of the attitude of the Soviet government [regarding] ... the constructive development of U.S.-Soviet relations...
...city is upsetting. Streetside windows are bricked against bombs. Barricades seal off free movement: the downtown shopping area is accessible only at stringently guarded checkpoints. British soldiers patrol the streets, 13,800 of them for six counties with 1.5 million people. And there is the fence, a political statement of corrugated metal that jaggedly separates Protestant and Catholic neighborhoods...