Word: pact
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...strategy of Mutual Assured Destruction (MAD) insists that nuclear weapons have no utility in the operation of policy. Their only use, say the MADmen, is to hold up our end of a suicide pact with the U.S.S.R. This doctrine can't assure survival because survival is not its objective...
Poland. While there have been no unusual troop movements so far, the Soviets have been gathering units for several weeks in western areas, preparing part of the U.S.S.R. for regular Warsaw Pact maneuvers in East Germany next month. The mobilized Soviet units will probably transit through Poland and could quickly be thrown into action if necessary...
SALT II The Democrats describe the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty as a "major accomplishment" and promise to seek ratification as soon as possible. The Republicans denounce the pact as "fundamentally flawed." The G.O.P. platform insists that the U.S. ultimately achieve military superiority over the Soviet Union, a position that would appear to rule out serious arms-control negotiations...
Otherwise the XXII Olympiad was a picnic for Warsaw Pact countries. The Soviets alone won some 30% of the total medals and 40% of the golds; the East Germans took about 20% of each. East-bloc nations piled up more than three quarters of the medals awarded. But many of the medals were tarnished by the absence of leading Western competitors...
...many TV series, characters behave the same way from first episode to last; that is their appeal. Dallas is different. It makes a pact with the viewer: tune in every week and get a jolt. Dallas offers adventure. In most series, characters refine themselves ever so slightly as time goes by, like an outdoor sculpture retouched by nature; the Ewings redefine themselves almost every week. Missing one episode means not only losing track of the plot, but finding that someone has acquired new alliances and enemies. It's flourish or perish with each week's trauma...