Word: lettering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...delay, wrote the President in a letter to Senate Majority Leader Robert Byrd of West Virginia, would allow the White House and the Congress to "assess Soviet actions and intentions, and devote our primary attention to the legislative and other measures required to respond to this crisis." Carter emphasized that SALT's eventual approval by the Senate would be "in the national security interest." The request for a delay was greeted with relief by SALT supporters, a number of whom had feared that there was no chance the arms pact could now win the two-thirds vote required for passage...
Indeed, shortly after Waldheim left Tehran, the hostages' situation turned more ominous. The militants at the U.S. embassy demanded that Ghotbzadeh hand over to them U.S. Chargé d'Affaires L. Bruce Laingen, who has been held by the government at the Foreign Ministry. In a letter to Ghotbzadeh, the students said that Laingen "must provide some explanations about documents of espionage discovered in the nest of spies." In addition, the students announced that if the hostages are tried, Vietnamese representatives will be invited to attend. They claimed that one of the hostages, Air Force Lieut. Colonel David...
Meanwhile, Afghanistan's new pro-Soviet government broadcast a letter to President Carter yesterday accusing the United States of "trying with all its forces to work against...
...time to engage in strategic arms sabre rattling or to expand dramatically the U.S. military establishment; neither foreign policy gains nor military advantage can be garnered in this way. However, cooperation on such matters as SALT is essential and should continue, but detente as a whole becomes a dead letter if the fruit of the policy is such actions as the Afghanistan invasion. Similarly, direct U.S. military intervention is wholly inappropriate; the U.S. must preserve the distinction between itself and the U.S.S.R. and avoid the use of its own military forces to destroy a nation...
...Student Assembly last month sent a letter to Fox requesting the formation of a committee to find ways to channel the energies of undergraduates interested in student government into effective organizations...