Word: controlled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...treaties to cut nuclear warheads and European force levels could be completed by next June, or anytime next year. The President promised to "kick our bureaucracy and push it as fast as I possibly can" to meet the deadlines. Yet despite the smiles in Malta, the obstacles to arms control are more than bureaucratic; the two leaders did little to resolve fundamental disagreements...
Until recently Bush was a member of the conservative chorus warning that a bad arms-control deal was worse than no deal at all, as critics reminded him. "Setting an arbitrary time frame for arms-control treaties to be completed and signed is not wise," said Sam Nunn, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee...
...inch progress in Vienna and Geneva only underscored warnings that there will be no quick "peace dividend" for the overstretched federal budget. Defense Secretary Dick Cheney's planned $180 billion in Pentagon cuts through 1995 amount to little more than deletions in the military's wish list. Nuclear-arms control saves little money because it normally results in destruction of hardware that has already been paid for and often requires expensive verification methods. Reducing conventional forces could save money, but not much: defense-budget experts from the Rand Corp. to the Congressional Budget agree that a 50% reduction...
...they did carry the risk of metastasizing into something dangerous. As exhilarating as the rapid pace of change may be, the tight grip of party rule that seemed unshakable just weeks ago has loosened to the point of presenting both countries with the prospect of events slipping out of control. Though the revolution in East Berlin continues to outrace changes in Prague, the dynamics of tumult are much the same in both countries. Besieged party leaders grant one desperate concession ) after another, hoping each move will quiet the mounting outcry and preserve some measure of power for themselves. The opposition...
...Reagan Administration slashed aid to international family-planning programs, and President Bush has not restored it. He recently vetoed a $15 billion foreign aid package because he feared that a tiny $15 million targeted for the U.N. Population Fund might help support abortion services in China. Getting birth-control information and devices to the 2.5 billion people beyond the present reach of family-planning programs will require $8 billion annually, a $5 billion rise from current levels. In 1989 the U.S. contributed $245 million to such programs, less in real terms than in 1979. Unless America reverses its present policy...