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...OCTOBER 3 of this year the most important strategic arms agreement of the decade will expire, leaving the world's two superpowers faced with the prospect of preventing nuclear war without the help of a Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT) accord. Even Big Bert Lance and his big problems look almost petty when lined up against the largest question of them all, the ultimate question of peace. Indeed, so do all the other domestic concerns that have overshadowed the complicated SALT issue since President Carter's ill-fated Moscow initiative last spring...
Carter is indeed out on a limb. The fact is the canal has a constituency and the treaty has no constituency," says Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker, who along with Sol Linowitz negotiated the accord. By one nose count, only 35 Senators now favor the treaty, 22 are opposed and 43 are undecided-far short of the two-thirds vote needed for approval. But the undecided count may be deceptive. A vote on the treaty is not likely to occur until early next year and, as one Republican Senator asks, "Why shouldI make my position known now? I'd just...
...being assigned their place of residence. Another called for the abolition of the system whereby husbands and wives are separated by their jobs for long periods of time. In the northwestern city of Sian, a poster asked for the publication of two human rights declarations, the 1975 Helsinki accord and the Czechoslovak Charter 77. Declared the poster: "It doesn't matter whether Charter 77 and the Helsinki agreement are good or bad; they ought to be made public so that people can judge for themselves...
...some extent, the visit was part of a broad tactical maneuver by the Communist regime of János Kádár. On the brink of next month's talks on the Helsinki accord, Hungary is eager to brush up its image and counteract complaints about church restrictions from both Hungarian and U.S. Christians. In fact, Hungary probably has the most liberal church policy among Warsaw Pact countries. Sunday schools and youth retreats are permitted. Bibles, though expensive, are available. Even so, open evangelism and freedom of church publication in the Western sense are unknown. Evangelical Christians...
...treaty. An agreement was reached in 1967, but its details were leaked, and conservative U.S. Congressmen protested so vociferously that L.B.J., up to his earlobes in Viet Nam, backed off. Before the treaty revision could be concluded, Torrijos in October 1968 overthrew the existing government and immediately spurned the accord. Making a new treaty his major issue, he abolished political parties, seized control of the press, drove opponents into exile and saw his once prosperous economy falter. Latin American and indeed world pressures began to build on the U.S. In 1974 Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and then Panamanian Foreign...