Word: salts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Senator Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D-Mass.) told a crowd of 2000 people at M. I. T.'s Kresge Auditorium Friday that the Nixon administration is undermining the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT) by insisting on the immediate deployment' of ABM and MIRV weapon systems, and that "If the Administration will not act rationally, then the Congress must...
...regarded as an expression not of firmness but of sheer recklessness. Rock-throwing, flag-burning demonstrations against the U.S. erupted in scores of foreign cities. Perhaps worst of all, the move threatened to cast a shadow over two critical negotiations with the Communist giants-the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT) with the Soviets in Vienna and the exploratory discussions with the Chinese in Warsaw. The President, who invoked an "era of negotiation" in his Inaugural, had now provoked a period of confrontation...
...carried live on Russian television, charged that the widening of the war raised serious questions. "What is the value of international agreements, which the United States is or intends to be a party to," Kosygin asked, "if it so unceremoniously violates its obligations?" Kosygin was plainly referring to SALT, and though the sixth session of the talks went ahead as scheduled, Soviet delegates reportedly did cite Cambodia as an issue that undermined trust...
...camera and becoming the protege of a pudgy master pornographer. He sets up his tripod in his tenement apartment and plays a Peeping Tom game of Rear Window with the tenants of the massive co-op across the way. He even winds up marrying one of them (Jennifer Salt). By this time his film career has gone sour, his debut in radical theater has been a bust, and his new calling as "an urban guerrilla" seems threatened by the balm of matrimony and impending fatherhood...
...love; to the old man, the idyl is pointless and backward. He insists on staying with the unmarried couple until the baby comes, and snipes at their supernatural way of life. As the wrangle intensifies, Korty alleviates the strain with scenes of a vanishing existence-of undisturbed salt flats, of a newborn lamb on the grass, of vast, unsaturated skies. It is here that his affectations are replaced by affections...