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...counted under the proposed SALT ceiling on weapons systems. The Soviets maintain that the bomber is not a long-range weapon because it cannot fly farther than 7,000 miles. Pentagon strategists argue that Backfire should still be included under the proposed SALT agreement because if based in the Arctic or refueled in midair, the bomber could reach the U.S. To allay Pentagon fears, the Soviets offered to limit the number of Backfires and restrict their mid-air refueling and Arctic basing capabilities. Reflecting Pentagon suspicions about Russian promises, a U.S. strategist called the Backfire proposal "nonsense...
That has never included coddling. The women will undergo Arctic exploration or jungle-warfare training or make paratroop jumps. Physical conditioning will include tough daily exercises, scrambling over obstacle courses and wriggling underneath barbed wire. Boxing? "We require it of the males because we're trying to teach them that it is better to give than to receive," said one briefing officer. But the women will be exempt from boxing and wrestling; they will substitute judo and karate. The female plebes, however, will undergo the same painful, often humiliating seven-week initiation ritual that male cadets have dubbed "Beast...
...ceiling, but the Soviets would agree to deploy no more than 200 of the bombers. They would also be required to confine the Backfires' range by not providing any tanker fleet of aircraft to refuel the bombers in midair, nor could the new aircraft be based in the Arctic. This arrangement would, in effect, exempt the Backfires from the Vladivostok accord but give the U.S. an indirect way of limiting them...
...course, the Arctic Gas proposal could theoretically put U.S.-bound gas under the control of a Canadian government that is increasingly inimical to U.S. business interests. The prospect does not worry Arctic Gas officials. They emphasize that Canadian firms, having found large deposits of natural gas in the Mackenzie River delta, would not only help to finance the pipeline but also use it to export surplus gas to the U.S. Adds William Brackett, the consortium's American vice chairman: "We've been shipping through the St. Lawrence Seaway for years without any friction between the nations. Besides...
...edge over the other, though the Federal Power Commission is studying both schemes carefully before it grants one a transmission permit next December. Although El Paso's system would be slightly less expensive to build, it could use more energy in transportation and cost more to operate than Arctic Gas's scheme. Similarly, defense and environmental considerations roughly balance out for the two projects. In fact the critical question-whether to cross Canada -will probably be decided not by the FPC's impartial analysis but by politicians. Alaskan officials and some 44 labor unions are backing...