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...devastating nuclear counterstrike could be destroyed) By limiting the development and deployment of certain weapons, SALT negotiators have tried to preserve the strategic balance so that both the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. could launch an atomic retaliation even after suffering a massive, surprise "first strike." In a sense, SALT aims at keeping the American and Soviet societies hostage to each other in order to make such a nuclear exchange unthinkable. This theory of deterrence is known, rather grimly, as mutual assured destruction. A secondary aim of SALT is the eventual reduction of costly nuclear arsenals so that...
Last-week Zaïre officials claimed that the invaders were fighting under new bosses-leftist Portuguese mercenaries-and were armed with Soviet-made mortars and missiles. Meanwhile, the pro-Moscow National Liberation Front of the Congo, a Paris-based exile group, took responsibility for the invasion. Its aim, F.N.L.C. spokesmen said, was to overthrow Mobutu's "neocolonialist tyranny...
...Organized chaos" is the way an aide describes Schlesinger's managerial technique. His aim: to make his staff think, question, argue, analyze. Says one Schlesinger aide: "He is really a seminar leader." He likes to use the sessions to test ideas, and he throws out a lot. "We are really not sure which ones he is serious about," concludes an assistant. Even after he has reached a decision, Schlesinger is likely to end the session on a probing note. "If you think about this some more and decide it's crazy, come back," he will...
...aim is to curtail waste of energy and tap the nation's coal reserves so that the U.S. can stretch out oil and gas supplies until past the turn of the century, when new sources of energy, such as fusion, geothermal and solar power, will be coming on-stream in a significant way. Though it is still subject to change, here is how the Administration's new energy program now looks...
...systems analyst, a member of a special American priesthood that has grown up to cope with the many questions concerning the effectiveness of government and business strategies. Systems analysis, which is really good common sense on a grand scale, combines the knowledge of mathematical probabilities with the aim of dealing with problems in their entirety rather than just piece meal. But since systems analysts use a language unintelligible to outsiders, they have acquired an almost mystical aura. Schlesinger recognized this several years ago and wrote a critical treatise that offended many of his colleagues and created severe opposition when...