Word: unionization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...beginning the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT) with the Soviet Union...
...limited funds may become sharper as the second session of the Congress opens in an election year. Democrats will want to portray the Administration as shirking domestic needs, and Republicans will try to blame Democrats in Congress for free spending and inflation. In his State of the Union address, the President is expected to emphasize his determination to alleviate such domestic ills as deterioration of the environment and inadequate supervision of profit-making concerns that abuse consumers. But how much more money can be diverted from the defense budget-the only obvious source of massive funds-to launch costly...
...more than two decades, the U.S. has in large measure served as Israel's benefactor, a role that the Soviet Union has more recently assumed in behalf of the Arab states. Initially the U.S. position was dictated less by strict geopolitical considerations than by moral impulse-a desire somehow to compensate the Jewish people for the horrors of World War II. Politics, too, played a part, especially among Democratic Presidents who needed the urban Jewish vote. The long-term U.S. role is in the midst of a transformation, however, and the Israelis are plainly alarmed...
Coolness to Israel. What started the furor was the disclosure of an eleven-point U.S. plan for peace between Israel and Jordan. The proposals were worked up for submission to the Big Four-the U.S., the Soviet Union, Britain and France-in the wake of the suspension of talks on the Middle East between Washington and Moscow. Though Rogers and several other State Department officials spent 2½ hours in Washington conferring with Israeli Foreign Minister Abba Eban only 30 hours before the plan was submitted to the other members of the Big Four, they made no mention of what...
Twenty years ago last week, Iosif Vissarionovich Stalin turned 70, and the Soviet Union celebrated with a birthday party to end all birthday parties. Factory workers and farm hands promised to double, triple and quadruple their production norms as a present to their leader. The Italian Communists sent an Alfa Romeo sports car to the Kremlin, while the French party dispatched a chromium-plated racing bicycle. For the next eight months, Pravda's pages had room for little except birthday greetings...