The End of the Cold War: Gorbachev, Reagan, and John Paul II
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NAMES IN ORDER OF PRESENTATION
Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty
“national technical means of verification”
geo-syncopated satellites
National Office of Reconnaissance
International Atomic Energy Agency
Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe
Helsinki Accords: U. N. Declaration of Human Rights
Jimmy Carter: We can no longer separate traditional issues of war and peace from the new global questions of justice, equality and human rights … We have reaffirmed American’s commitment to human rights as a fundamental tenet of our foreign policy … We want the world to know that our nation stands for more than financial prosperity.
National Security Decision Directive 32
Nuclear Freeze movement
Papal visits to Poland: 1979, 1981, and 1983
“a commonwealth of sovereign democratic states … grounded in spiritual values, pluralism, religious tolerance and mutual understanding.”
Boris Yeltsin at the “White House”
Ray Flynn: more important than any other relationship in the world
Clinton: “hopes the Vatican can bring its moral authority to bear in pursuing common goals.”