Word: zeroed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...control agreement. Naturally, we are aware that in short-range missiles, the Soviets retain a considerable advantage, as they do in conventional and chemical arms. We would like any agreement between the United States and the Soviet Union to take Europe's security interests into account. For us, the zero option, the withdrawal and destruction of Soviet SS- 20s and of U.S. Pershing II and cruise missiles, could be positive elements as long as there existed, on a parallel basis, the broad outlines of agreement in principle on equilibrium in short-range missiles and on the means of verification. Will...
Chirac is scheduled this week to make his first visit as Premier to the U.S., where he will attempt to burnish his international credentials in talks with President Reagan, Cabinet officials and Wall Street financial leaders. His basic message to Washington: that France, while approving in principle the "zero option" arms-control proposal, which calls for the removal of all U.S. and Soviet intermediate-range nuclear weapons from European soil, wants to be certain the two sides also achieve parity on shorter-range nuclear missiles. Chirac is expected to renew France's commitment to the campaign against international terrorism...
...Bookbinder bluntly: "Pollard is a criminal found guilty in our system of justice, it's as simple as that. If it was perceived in America that we had come to the defense of Pollard because he's a Jew, our credibility as a Jewish community would be down to zero overnight, and Israel would be the loser." In Washington, the staunchly pro-Israel New Republic called the Jerusalem government's behavior in the Pollard affair "morally unworthy and politically stupid," adding, "If the smart-asses in the corridors of Israeli power think, as one commentator recently put it, that Israel...
...pride his having blocked "any arms-control agreement that harmed national security." Perle maintains that he has nothing against arms treaties, but he insists that "you have to be prepared to resist the temptation to sign bad ones." Despite his reputation, Perle was the author of the so-called zero-option proposal for eliminating intermediate-range nuclear missiles in Europe, which has become the framework for current talks...
North Dakota has won four championships in 11 years of tourney participation, Minnesota has won three titles in 13 seasons, Michigan State has two titles in eight, and St. Lawrence has zero crowns in eight tries...