Word: ussr
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Jackson still must be credited with pushing issues too often left out of the political discussion--for example, problems with the primary run-off system in the South, and a greater U.S. foreign policy emphasis on parts of world other than Western Europe, the Middle East, and the USSR. But the runoff system--Jackson's major domestic issue--is far from an open and shut case. Many people argue that the total abolishment of the two-primary system in Southern states would ultimately send more Republicans to high state and national office, rather than more Black Democrats. Jackson...
...Harvard group gathered the information after examining 10 US-USSR crisis situations since the Cuban Missile Crisis and after questioning administrator about part negotiation problems, said...
...added that the report may begin to "open the wedge" between the US and the USSR...
Improving communications between the US and the USSR through a new "crisis control system" to prevent accidental nuclear war was the chief recommendation of a Harvard study group report submitted to the government last week...
...allies of both powers will be included. For the purpose of this treaty the nuclear weapons of France and NATO would be considered American. Similarly, any nuclear weapons under East European control would be considered Soviet. This would insure that the USSR would not supply nuclear weapons to satellite nations in order to side-step the treaty. If this clause were not included the Soviets would claim that the proposal was unfair. Other NATO and French nuclear weapons would make up only 12 percent of the West's nuclear capabilities. Therefore, this clause would not compromise the U.S. position...