Word: accords
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...Kremlin action came in angry response to conditions imposed by Congress, such as the so-called Jackson Amendment (see box). In declaring their 1972 trade accord with the U.S. invalid, the Soviets rejected by extension the Trade Reform Act signed by President Ford early this year. Thus the U.S.S.R. spurned lower U.S. tariff rates and $300 million in Export-Import Bank credits, while reneging on their agreement to repay $722 million in wartime Lend-Lease debts...
...Vladivostok accord as spelled out by the President is certainly better than if disagreement had resulted and no limits were to be placed on strategic offensive weapons. The limits are not as low as we wanted. I include in the word we the U.S. Defense establishment, which I understand would like to have seen reductions in the strategic forces of both superpowers. One can hope for such reductions at an earlier date than foreshadowed in the Vladivostok statement. It is worth recalling that a reduction in ABM sites from two to one followed only two years after the ABM treaty...
...SALT accord in essence provides for equal ceilings of 2,400 on the number of iCBMs, SLBMs and heavy bombers, and 1,320 on the number of MlRVed missiles each side can have over the next ten years. The accord thus puts a medium-term cap on the numbers of certain types of offensive strategic launchers. It provides the appearance of equality. It does not, however, deal with throw-weight-the most useful, verifiable measure of relative missile capability either MlRVed or un-MITRVed...
...Kissinger has indicated that the new Soviet Backfire bomber is not to be defined as being a heavy bomber. It is therefore difficult to see how the accord reduces in a meaningful way the U.S. strategic-defense problem posed by the new family of Soviet missiles and bombers, which are completing testing and whose deployment is now beginning. If we do not add new strategic programs to those now planned, the U.S. will end the ten-year period of the accord with less than half the MlRVed throw-weight and less than half the un-MIRVed throw-weight...
...agreement does not appear to bar the U.S. from doing what is necessary to correct or compensate for these imbalances. I am disappointed that the accord does not do more to avoid that necessity. Thus I cannot view Vladivostok as a triumphant breakthrough...