Word: willingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While Lowrance glooms over gold's fickle ways, he is suddenly surrounded by gold-jacketed runners and other traders clad in bright red, green and purple coats. They talk excitedly about a broker's blunder: the man has made a mistake in filling out a customer's...
Speaking publicly and privately with undecided Senators last week, leading statesmen of the member nations kept emphasizing that it will be politically possible to deploy new medium-range theater missiles in Europe only if SALT is approved. Without the pact, jittery West Europeans living only a few hundred miles from...
But if SALT is not approved, that strategy will be jeopardized. All of the European NATO nations have large left-leaning political parties that are concerned about the effect an arms buildup might have on detente. They will accept the new missiles only if they are accompanied by SALT II...
...pacify public opinion in West Germany, Chancellor Helmut Schmidt insists that other European nations accept at least a token number of the new missiles on their own soil. Britain has indicated a willingness to add to its minuscule nuclear force; Belgium has also signaled that it would be willing to go along. The Netherlands, on the other hand, seems too divided on the issue at the moment to make a decision. As Belgian Foreign Minister Henri Simonet told TIME: "Without ratification of SALT II, it will be politically impossible for the West Germans-and even more so for us Belgians...
Under mounting pressure from SALT supporters at home and abroad, the U.S. Senate seemed to edge closer to approval of the pact last week despite the setback caused by the uproar over the Soviet combat brigade in Cuba. That issue was somewhat defused when Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Frank...