Word: sealed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...National Security Council to prepare for renewed strategic arms talks between Secretary of State Cyrus Vance and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko. The NSC drafted Presidential Review Memorandum No. 2, an interagency study of the options available to the President. There was a loose consensus that the U.S. should seal the deal Gerald Ford had made at Vladivostok, and swiftly. Then the Administration could get on with more ambitious initiatives in the next round of talks, SALT...
Motzfeldt, a seal hunter's son from Qassimiut, a southern settlement, sets the first priority as fishing rights. Greenlanders now have exclusive rights up to twelve miles offshore, but Motzfeldt wants this extended to 100 miles. He threatens to pull out of the Common Market, to which Greenland reluctantly belongs through its link with Denmark, "if we do not get satisfaction" on fishing...
After moving out quickly to a length-and-a-half lead with a 36 stroke-per-minute cadence, the crew settled at 34, then finished with a burst to seal the two-and-a-quarter-length win and the record...
...While many of the Magic Mountain sanatoriums have closed and the Christmas Seal drives have turned mostly to other causes, TB still thrives. In the U.S., nearly 3,000 Americans died of the disease in 1977. Each year about 30,000 new cases are reported nationwide; last year 21 states noted a rise in cases. Almost 3 million more cases occur in the rest of the world. Says one concerned pulmonary specialist, Dr. Lee B. Reichman of the New Jersey Medical School in Newark: "It's a classic case of what happens when we eradicate a disease...
...whales are on a nation-wide tour to help promote a ten-year moratorium on whale killing at the next International Whaling Commission meeting," Deirdre Devine, a spokesman for Greenpeace, a Boston-based seal and whale conservation group, said yesterday...