Word: moratorium
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...come to nothing-or maybe worse than nothing. The Soviets have stalled all attempts to improve blast-detection devices. Whenever the U.S. offered a concession on inspection, the U.S.S.R upped the ante. For example, the U.S. had originally held out for a 27-month moratorium on "small blasts," while the Soviets demanded a halt of four or five years; when the U.S. proposed a compromise of three years, the U.S.S.R. decided to insist upon an "indefinite" moratorium. Again, the U.S. originally wanted 20 on-site inspections a year in Russia, while the Soviets would tolerate only three. A couple...
Within weeks the Russians upped the ante with $150 million m credits and the necessary labor to build an oil refinery, a wool-carding plant, several power plants and some other industrial projects, along with a moratorium on $60 million of old debts...
...ease the pressure on their beleaguered yuan, Peking authorities have obtained a five-year moratorium on payment of their balances to the Soviet Union and cut back purchases of industrial equipment from West Germany and Britain. They are also dumping abroad textiles badly needed in China itself at prices well below competitive exports from India, Japan and Hong Kong. But these measures cannot conceal the fact that Mao's communization has wiped out those exportable surpluses of soybeans, rice, pork and oils that used to earn the country foreign exchange...
...considering resumption of nuclear testing. It may well end the self-imposed 30-month-old moratorium on nuclear tests, while still continuing negotiations with the Soviets toward a test-ban treaty. Reports a top policymaker: "It would be wrong to say that we must break off the negotiations before we can resume testing...
...Tsarapkin was to begin outlining the new Western plan. The West, he said, was now willing to let the Russians inspect any nuclear devices set off experimentally underground in the effort to work out an unbeatable detection system. The two Western powers were also prepared to extend the moratorium on underground testing to three years, to accept 19 rather than 21 control posts in Russia, and to agree to full inspection of any nuclear devices used industrially. The one point on which the West would not compromise : inspection and control must be real...