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...poses problems. The U.S. argues that it should take effect retroactively, about when the SALT I ceilings expired, and should run until December 1980. But Moscow, which would like to keep the lid on U.S. technological developments as long as possible, wants the clock to start when the new accord is actually signed...
Still another difficulty involves the wording with which both sides pledge that they will not try to circumvent the terms of the accord. Although such a vow may seem superfluous, the Soviets could try to interpret it in a manner that would impede the transfer of weapon technology by the U.S. to other NATO members...
...that would only conclude the Administration's negotiations with the Russians. Carter would then have to open negotiations with the deeply suspicious U.S. Senate. According to California's Alan Cranston, the upper chamber's Democratic whip: "It's going to be a tough battle, tougher than the Panama Canal treaties. If we had to take up SALT today, it probably wouldn't make it." Cranston notes that even advocates of arms control are reserving judgment on SALT II until they see the final shape of the accord. He estimates that roughly 40 Senators favor...
...effort to continue trying to control strategic arms because SALT so far has accomplished little. Weapons output and costs, for example, do not seem to have decreased under SALT I. And certainly no treaty is better than a bad treaty. Still, it ought to be possible to negotiate an accord, in SALT III or IV, that would stabilize the nuclear balance and provide a high enough level of confidence so that both superpowers could finally brake their strategic arms efforts...
...abruptly resigned last month in a cloud of scandal over alleged tax evasion and financial improprieties. Pertini's Socialist Party, the country's third largest, had aggressively sought the presidency from the start, as a sign that it was not about to be submerged by the growing accord of Italy's two dominant parties, the Christian Democrats and Communists...