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Inside the Tip. The Soviets want to retain the option of arming some of their SS-18s with single warheads and some with MIRVS. The U.S. argued that such a mix makes policing the SALT agreement nearly impossible. Reason: the satellite photos both sides use to count the number of missiles are unable to "peek" inside the tip of the missile to see if it has a multiple warhead. The U.S. position has thus been that once a class of missile has been tested with MIRVs, all units of that class must be considered MIRVed...
...avoid Soviet missile defenses. Such improved accuracy would give the U.S. a better chance of destroying Soviet land-based ICBMS. A danger: this first-strike capacity could upset the nuclear balance in the same way that the Soviets would if they MlRVed all their SS-9s and SS-18s. Congress also approved continued development of the Trident missile submarine and the B-l strategic bomber...
...stress on Pan-Arabism and concentrate on Egypt's internal problems. When one of United Arab Airlines' aging Comets crashed two weeks ago in Tripoli, killing 16, Sadat grounded the other four and UAA Chairman Ahmed Tewfik Bakry as well; Egypt then leased six Ilyushin 18s from Eastern European airlines. To revamp Cairo's creaking transit system, Sadat's 30-man Cabinet voted to spend $27 million on new buses and to hire Japanese consultants for a new subway-feasibility study...
...Moscow because several Afro-Asian notables happened to be among the 27 killed (TIME, Sept. 5). After the crash the IL-18 was briefly grounded. The trouble seemed to be with the engine mountings (as with its U.S. counterpart, the Lockheed Electra) and with the engines. But IL-18s kept landing at African airfields as Russia's contribution to the U.N. Congo airlift. Inference was that whatever ailed the plane had been mended. Not so, a Russian IL-18 crew member at an African airport guardedly informed a TIME correspondent last week. In addition to the crash last August...
When operating in the Navy's Lockheed P2V-4 Neptune, the "18s" should enable the long-range patrol bomber to fly around the world at the 55th parallel (latitude of Belfast and Omsk) without refueling...