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Those two related questions have dominated the Senate debate on ratification of the SALT II accord. More generally, they have been influencing the way other countries view the U.S. as a world power. The search for answers has already caused one of the most far-ranging U.S. defense controversies since World...
...head a week earlier by presenting a "final" constitutional proposal: it guarantees 20% of the parliamentary seats to Rhodesia's white minority of 212,000, but strips it of its effective control of the military, judiciary and civil service. While avoiding the word ultimatum, Carrington insisted on the accord of both parties...
Meanwhile, to the great dismay of the Administration-and not a few Senators-the SALT II accord had become a hostage to the Soviet troops controversy. Complained a top White House official: "It's this horrible hulk that threatens SALT II. It's demoralizing." Not only has the dispute given SALT's opponents a chance to depict the Kremlin as an untrustworthy treaty partner, but the controversy has seriously damaged the effectiveness of one of SALT's most important backers, Senator Frank Church...
...legislation making unionization easier that Congress voted down. He denounced the President for supporting the original wage-price guidelines, which he felt favored business over labor. Ironically, on the day that Meany's retirement was announced, the AFL-CIO and the White House reached agreement on an accord that will give labor a voice in the setting of future wage guidelines and in forming economic policy to combat the recession...
...White House lawn, Mubarak denounced the policy change as a "rash" attempt to "usurp the rights of Palestinian people in their country and on their land." A day later, State Department Spokesman Hodding Carter lambasted the Israeli policy as "contrary to the spirit and intent" of the Camp David accord...