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Because of that technological advantage???and the U.S. lead in long-range bombers?Nixon agreed to grant the Russians numerical superiority in launchers in the SALT I agreements. At the time, the U.S. wrongly believed that the agreement might break the Soviet momentum in missile advances by setting a five-year ceiling on the number of offensive missiles each side can have. The U.S. was limited to 1,054 land-based intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMS), 44 missile-launching submarines and 710 submarine-launched ballistic missiles (SLBMs). The Soviets were permitted 1,618 ICBMs?91 more than they now have?...
...cautious man who rarely enters a contest he is not certain to win, Byrd figured at the last minute that he held a one-vote advantage???the proxy he held in his hand from Georgia's critically ill Richard Russell. He allowed his name to be put in nomination at the closed meeting only after checking with a messenger outside the caucus room to be certain that Russell was still alive. If the vote of Russell, who died less than four hours later (see story, page 19), had not been valid, Byrd would not have run. But once Byrd...
...chopped heads." There is the residual feeling in some quarters that the Kennedy millions "bought" the White House once and that they are being unlimbered in another attempt to do so. And there is the criticism, sometimes justified, that Kennedy will do almost anything, say almost anything, for political advantage???his ill-timed pressuring of Lyndon Johnson, for instance, to accept Hanoi's selection for a peace-talk site...
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