Word: abm
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Three scientists--including Jerome B. Weisner, president of MIT--have issued a 26-page statement challenging a report which labeled their testimony before Congress during the 1969 antiballistic missile (ABM) debate "inappropriate, misleading, or factually in error...
...three scientists led the attack two years ago against deployment of the ABM system...
...seventh year. We first became involved in Viet Nam to contain China, and our contain-China policy first developed in the days when China and Russia seemed to be a monolithic Communist bloc. If it is now safe for us to trade with China and safe to negotiate an ABM agreement with Russia, it should be safe, at last, to bring our soldiers home from Viet...
...details of the agreement can be hammered out until the SALT negotiations resume. The U.S. is willing to allow the ABM protection of Moscow to expand slightly; in return, it expects to retain some of the four Safeguard sites currently under way to protect American ICBM silos. Now in its initial stages, after barely gaining congressional approval, the ABM program can be modified to fit any possible agreement. Until an accord is reached, the U.S. intends to go ahead with additional ABM sites as well as with the deployment of MIRV, multiwarhead missiles designed to penetrate the Soviet Galosh (ABM...
Some Democratic Senators were so nettled by the President's secretiveness that they suspected that the whole agreement was merely a ruse to gain support for continued spending on ABM. Their rebellion is explained less by neo-isolationism than by their growing sense of impotence in foreign policy making (see TIME ESSAY). Nixon might have spared himself considerable trouble if he had let a few key Senators know what he was up to. Mansfield, for example, was rather vaguely informed only hours before the Senate vote...