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...translate this understanding into a concrete agreement." If a step has been taken that may reduce the quantity of nuclear weapons, their quality is still beyond control; both nations are free to continue improving the deadly efficacy of their nuclear armory. The Soviets underlined the tentative nature of the accord by announcing it with considerably less fanfare than Nixon did. Though it was read by a Soviet newscaster at the same time that the President appeared on TV, the news was omitted from subsequent Soviet broadcasts...
...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) network. Said Defense Secretary Melvin Laird: "It is clear that our strength has made possible the hope for success at SALT...
...gray dawn broke over Brussels, the newsmen were invited to go upstairs. "A major breakthrough?" inquired one reporter. "D'accord" replied Rippon, speaking fittingly in French. "The dialogue of the deaf is over." French Foreign Minister Maurice Schumann also seemed pleased. "The results," he said, "need no commentary." Schumann added that the entire negotiations could be completed by the end of June. Since Ireland, Denmark and Norway seek to join at the same time as Britain, the Six could become the Ten by 1973-with a larger population than either Russia or the U.S. and a gross national product...
...juries violates the due process clause of the Constitution. In his 38-page majority opinion, Justice John M. Harlan refused to be drawn into a debate on capital punishment. Said Harlan: "The Federal Constitution does not guarantee trial procedures that are the best of all worlds, or that accord with the most enlightened ideas of students of the infant science of criminology, or even those that measure up to the individual predilections of members of this Court." All the Constitution requires, Harlan held, is a fairly conducted trial in which the defendant's guaranteed rights are respected...
...respect is something to be granted only grudgingly after years of character testing. Thus it was something of a surprise that Vermont this month moved more forcefully than any other state to grant its restive young a new equality with their elders. The Vermont legislature became the first to accord 18-year-olds full majority rights...