Word: weaponeers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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GENEVA--Moscow clearly rejected Friday night an American plan for controlled suspension of nuclear weapon tests. This left the three-power talks as far away from agreement as on their opening two weeks...
Radio is a particularly effective weapon, she asserted, since it can reach the numerous Southerners who cannot read, and who either cannot afford a television set or live beyond television broadcasting ranges...
Thumbed Noses. Most powerful weapon in the hands of the new-rich Navajo tribal council is the treaty of 1868, signed by Lieut. General William Tecumseh Sherman for the U.S., and by Chief Barboncito and eleven other tribal chiefs for the Navajos. It allotted the Navajos their scrubby, brush-covered acreage along with treaty rights. Modern Navajo interpretation of the treaty: the tribe can disregard any state or federal law that does not suit its purposes. "A treaty sovereign," argues urbane Joseph F. McPherson. onetime U.S. Justice Department attorney who now works for the Navajos, "has a certain right...
...group's major activity so far has been the circulation of a petition which urged the governments of the United States, the Soviet Union, and the United Kingdom to negotiate "an immediate agreement for the permanent cessation of nuclear weapon testing." The petition stipulated that the agreement should be guaranteed by U.N. inspection...
...Committee will be aimed at political action," Hamilton said, but he stressed that "it will in no way be partisan or sectarian. It is simply concerned with disarmament and with directly related issues, such as nuclear weapon testing and missile control. It in no way will adopt a political point of view or ideology...