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Brezhnev charged that the American plan is designed to achieve U.S. military superiority, since it would exclude from negotiations "the strategic arms it is now most intensively developing." By limiting the number of land-based warheads to 2,500 apiece, Reagan's START proposal would weaken the backbone of the Soviet Union's strategic arsenal, the 5,500 warheads it deploys on ICBMS. In return, the U.S., which has only 2,152 warheads on ICBMS, would have to give up half of its 4,928 submarine-based warheads but could proceed with production of the planned MX ballistic...
...them, is preventing interest rates from falling-which they must if there is to be any strong recovery from the recession. If there is no budget, or if Congress passes one with deficit estimates that the financial community finds unacceptable, interest rates will surely stay high. That would delay, weaken or even prevent economic recovery-and provoke exactly the voter outrage that Congress fears...
...anything, turned our fears about a Soviet-Nicaraguan alliance into a self-fulfilling prophecy. Cut off from all Western aid. Nicaragua had been forced to look East for badly needed international recognition and foreign exchange Under the new State Department plan, the U.S. agreed to end efforts to weaken the Sandinista government, promised to oppose any Bay-of-Pigs-like invasion of angry exiles, and opened up the prospect of renewed trade, investment, and cultural ties between the two nations...
...Cunningham says that in the battle over Afro-Am at Harvard, the stakes are larger than just the one department. With the Reagan Administration toning down criticism of South Africa, attempts to academically sever the links of Black Americans to Africa are in part a political attempt to weaken the ties Black Americans feel to Black Africa, she added...
...precisely because of the way he straddled the fence between Independents and the CCA over the hottest political issue in the city. Though Vellucci more than anyone is responsible for the city's housing guidelines, he never staked out a clear position on the issue of whether Cambridge should weaken its tough controls against condominium conversion. Those controls protect rent-controlled housing from the open market forces that would transform them into luxury condos...