Word: chartering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...long-pending CIA charter must be enacted to improve U.S. intelligence. The legislation would tighten the agency's control over sensitive information and broaden the range of covert activities that it could conduct without specific presidential approval...
...Brzezinski alone in arguing that the idea of detente would not prevent the Soviets from acting aggressively to maintain what they regard as their national interests. Other hard-liners within the Administration argue that the U.S.S.R. has repeatedly violated detente's main charter, the "Basic Principles of Relations" between the U.S. and U.S.S.R., signed by Richard Nixon and Leonid Brezhnev at their Moscow summit in May of 1972. This communique stated that the two superpowers "will always exercise restraint in their mutual relations" and that "efforts to obtain unilateral advantage at the expense...