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...president insists that wehave to take a broader look and have to be able toconduct the tests necessary, to learn how todevelop this program...not at the end of seven to10 years but as we go along. And we believe thatit's perfectly consistent with the ABM treaty...
...Soviets have backed away from the demand for a dead stop in the U.S. Strategic Defense Initiative (Star Wars) program that sank the Reykjavik summit. "They have become much more ambiguous," reports a senior U.S. official. "They seldom mention SDI at all; instead they talk about strengthening the ((1972)) ABM treaty. Now, it may be that their real aim is to cripple SDI, and if so, no sale. But maybe we are seeing an evolution of their position that will provide leeway" for a compromise permitting SDI research and some testing while delaying deployment...
...Defense Department insists that by testing only parts of SDI this second phase will still conform to the Antiballistic Missile Treaty of 1972, which prohibits the development, testing or deployment of any new ABM system. But the Administration is chafing for a broader interpretation to accommodate expanded SDI development...
That has many in Congress worried. Last week the Senate voted 58-38 in favor of a provision that would bar the Pentagon from spending any funds on SDI testing that goes beyond the narrow interpretation of the ABM treaty. The provision, offered by Armed Services Committee Chairman Sam Nunn, is tied to the $302 billion defense authorization bill. Similar language is included in the House version of the military spending bill. Both are seen as a direct challenge to the President's plans to move ahead with SDI, and Reagan has threatened to veto the defense budget rather than...
THERE HAVE been 11 summits since September 1959, when President Eisenhower and Nikita S. Khrushchev held a Camp David chat. Since, a few summits have centered on the signing of pre-arranged agreements, which conveniently leave summiteers nothing to discuss. In 1972, for instance, Nixon and Brezhnev signed the ABM treaty and in 1979 Carter and Brezhnev agreed to SALT II. Other summits, in 1959, 1967 and 1985, have not centered on anything...