Word: controller
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...Supports strategy of mutual deterrence, improving command and control of strategic forces...
While I do not concur with all statements coming out of the Moral Majority position, I appreciate that some Christian group is taking a moral stand. The mainline churches have done much to encourage moral disorder by pressing the idea that Christianity is evolutionary and under the control of current-day consensus...
...Henry Kissinger's "Peace is at hand" statement in 1972, have influenced voters on the eves of past elections. But neither of those was a close race, and never before has the decision on so emotional an issue as the hostages been so totally under the control of a foreign government...
...pledge." He added: "Over the last 20 years, we have taken some steps away from the nuclear precipice. Now, for the first time, we are being advised to take steps that may move us toward it." The next day, he explained by sardonically describing Reagan's arms-control policy: "First, throw the existing nuclear-arms limitation treaty [SALT ] in the wastebasket. Second, threaten the Soviet Union with a nuclear-arms race. Third, launch a quest for so-called nuclear superiority." Though it was Carter who requested that the Senate delay consideration of SALT II after the Soviets invaded Afghanistan...
...Helens as wreaking more havoc than auto exhausts, leading to a joke in the Reagan press corps about "the attack of the killer trees." Such nonsense has reduced his credibility in this field. Still, as Governor, he earned respect in California by upholding rigid water-pollution and smog-control laws and by protecting an additional 145,000 acres of park lands from private commercial use. In any clash between energy development and the environment, however, Reagan would be expected to give priority to energy. Carter's priorities seem the reverse, although he, too, is a supporter of nuclear power expansion...