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...time it has taken to negotiate the new accord indicates the sensitivity and complexity of arms control. At stake is the national security of the U.S. and the Soviet Union. SALT is not a disarmament treaty, and there are large elements of military force that it does not cover...
...SEVERAL MONTHS now, the Carter Administration has been announcing the impending completion of a new strategic arms treaty. Last week, negotiators worked out the remaining details of the accord and finally presented it for the inspection and approval of the public and the Senate. While the treaty itself represents a heartening, if small, step in the direction of arms control, the reception it has met with on Capitol Hill has been disappointing, to say the least...
...Ginzburg, 42, was constantly harassed and finally imprisoned for writings critical of Communist life. He further antagonized authorities by becoming a self-appointed monitor of Moscow's compliance with the human rights provisions of the 1975 Helsinki accord. He was brought to trial once again last summer for his role in helping political prisoners with a fund set up by Alexander Solzhenitsyn. Defiant as ever, he was sentenced to eight years of hard labor...
...Giscard d'Estaing. The contract with Iraq was engineered in 1975 by then Premier Jacques Chirac, with Giscard's approval. The deal was kept secret until the following year. Then it was announced as a commercial agreement between several French companies and Iraq, rather than an accord between two nations, thus allowing the arrangement to escape an acrimonious debate in the French parliament. After Chirac's resignation in 1976, Giscard "began having second thoughts about the contract. He feared France would not only be contributing to nuclear proliferation but would be blamed for intensifying tensions...
...ground listening posts than can be carried by satellites. This is especially important in monitoring missile launchings and impacts. The sensitive equipment, like sophisticated radar, can calculate an ICBM's length and diameter and thus contribute significantly to SALT II verification. Reason: under the expected terms of the accord, if such dimensions are increased or decreased by more than 5%, the weapon would have to be designated as a "new type" of missile and be subject to a sharp limitation on deployment. (Some critics of SALT caution that the margin of error in measurement still makes it impossible...