Word: rules
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...soldiers, supported by tanks and helicopter gunships, the Soviet army crashed across the Afghan border to take control of a country that had not been a member of the Soviet bloc. By forcefully expanding its international sphere of direct control, the Kremlin in effect had violated a fundamental ground rule of East-West relations. In a meeting with his top aides, Carter said sternly that the Soviet invasion is "a quantum jump in the nature of Soviet behavior. And if they get through this with relative political and economic impunity, it will have serious consequences on the world in years...
Earlier in the week, the Administration had made its relatively easy decisions: recall Ambassador Watson, move in the U.N., and rule out the use of U.S. troops. A bit trickier was SALT II, to which Carter has been deeply committed and which was to be debated when the Senate
...would not be felt for a few months. When the grain runs out, the herds would again be slaughtered to feed people. Toward the end of 1980, a meat shortage would finally develop. But that would simply mean belt-tightening for Soviet citizens -a familiar enough deprivation under Communist rule. If the embargo were sustained for a long period, more severe suffering could occur. But Carter has always been reluctant to use food as that direct a weapon. In his speech he even went out of his way, rather lamely, to say that the grain he is cutting...
...rule out an escalation of the arms race...
...cannot rule it out, but I hope there will be sufficient wisdom on both sides to restrain...