Word: finalities
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...would be difficult to reconcile this pledge with Moscow's ferrying of 6,000 Cuban troops to Angola in 1975 and its shipment of thousands of military "advisers" and enormous quantities of weapons to Ethiopia three years later. During the final months of the Shah's reign in Iran, moreover, Persian-language broadcasts beamed at Iran from inside the U.S.S.R. were inflaming an already tense situation by charging, among other things, that "the dangers facing the Iranian people are coming" from...
...report released by Washington's Brookings Institution this fall concluded that "the significance of Soviet armed forces as a tool of diplomacy has loomed larger." Harvard Political Scientist Samuel Huntington agrees, noting that "detente has been dying for a very long time. What we are witnessing now is the final nail being driven into the coffin." Says Duke University Political Scientist Ole Holsti: "The invasion of Afghanistan has driven home the fact, more than anything since World War II, that whatever the Soviets mean by detente, or anything else, they are prepared to take hard action where they view...
...Roosevelt Room, the Secretaries of State, Defense, Agriculture and Commerce presented their views on an embargo. Then the President confided that he was leaning toward that drastic move, but wanted to postpone a final decision until Friday so that he could, as he said, "sleep on it." Later, Carter's aides concluded that the danger of a political setback in Iowa would be offset by the image the President would project: a tough leader willing to put national security needs above the "parochial" farm interest. After Carter's TV address, an aide described the gram cutoff and accompanying measures...
...Vladivostok accord, which was negotiated by President Ford and Kissinger and is embodied in the final SALT II treaty, sets equal ceilings of 2,400 for total strategic nuclear launchers and 1,320 for launchers with multiple warheads (MIRVs). Those ceilings are too high for the liking of many arms-control enthusiasts and U.S. defense planners as well, for they permit the Soviets to continue their 17-year-old missile buildup, which in turn is forcing the U.S. into expensive countermeasures. But the Carter Administration succeeded in negotiating additional provisions that would apply the brakes to the Soviet juggernaut...
...Final plans were also laid for tomorrow's meeting between black and white students at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where students will "be able to talk face to face about some of their fears and concerns." Wolf said...