zero option

Already we hear calls from the right and the left to impose what might be called a "zero option"; that is, cancellation of Iraq's debt.

Then, in 1981, President Reagan proposed the "zero option" to eliminate intermediate-range nuclear forces.

Stunned by events in Moscow, Fidel Castro now talks of a "zero option": Cuban socialism will carry on alone, even without Soviet aid.

ForHRUL, supporting these steps, is also maintaining the idea of "zero option".

The provisional government, which has observer status at the talks, agreed to the "zero option."

For a time, he spoke of a "zero option," or a painful if temporary shift to austere horse- and oxen-powered autarky in order to save socialism.

Indeed, I support a zero option for all nuclear arms.

But the Soviet envoy quickly added that this "zero option" could not be concluded "except with the participation of other nuclear states."

This zero option does not appear clearly within the Council's plan.

Mr. Kemp insisted that he never supported an "unconditional zero option" and added that "some things have changed" since his initial favorable assessment.