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...Since all missiles of a given type are to be destroyed, any such weapon spotted later would be in obvious violation. START will be far more complex. It will only reduce the numbers of various missiles, and inspectors will have to determine how many small cruise missiles are carried aboard bombers and possibly even submarines. Differentiation must be made between nuclear-tipped and conventionally armed cruise missiles, even if they look alike. A method will have to be found to keep track of mobile missiles. With all that, the supreme challenge will be how to prevent new production of banned...
...accept increasingly intrusive inspections. To win U.S. ratification of the 1974 Threshold Test Ban Treaty -- still unapproved because of Senate doubts about verification -- the Soviets permitted American teams to monitor an underground test in Soviet Central Asia. In recent weeks Moscow has allowed Americans to inspect cruise missiles aboard a cruiser in the Black Sea and sanctioned a visit to the Sary Shagan complex, which the Pentagon had claimed, erroneously, housed an antisatellite laser...
Nobody has emerged, however, to claim that Hazelwood ever drank heavily aboard the Valdez; in fact, his management of the ship won the praise of superiors. Both in 1987 and 1988 the Valdez was singled out for a prestigious company award for "safety and performance." Nevertheless, he was increasingly disillusioned with his career, largely for reasons ranging from longer work hours and frozen pay levels to the growing powerlessness of captains to make their own judgments. A week before the oil spill, Hazelwood told a friend that he was thinking about taking a job as a harbor pilot...
Before boarding, Hazelwood wired Easter flowers to his wife and their 13- year-old daughter Alison, a junior high school honor student. Once aboard, he went to his quarters, where he says he drank two bottles of Moussy, a & beerlike beverage containing about 0.5% alcohol that had been stocked aboard the Valdez. After the spill, two empty bottles were found in his room...
Coast Guard investigator Mark Delozier, who climbed aboard the Valdez more than three hours after the accident, says he found a "very intense" smell of alcohol on Hazelwood's breath. But Delozier also says Hazelwood did not appear intoxicated or impaired. "He was very professional," he says. "He didn't appear to be at a loss of any capabilities." No one who was aboard the Valdez has contradicted Delozier...