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...Soviet Union with a nuclear-arms race. Third, launch a quest for so-called nuclear superiority." Though it was Carter who requested that the Senate delay consideration of SALT II after the Soviets invaded Afghanistan, he now describes the pact as his "secret weapon" to reduce the Soviet nuclear arsenal "without costing a dime...
There is a political and historical irony in the positions of the two candidates on SALT II. Reagan proposes to scrap the present treaty and reopen negotiations with the Kremlin. His goal: a new agreement that would substantially reduce the Soviet arsenal of intercontinental missiles and thus blunt the danger of a surprise attack against the American rockets. Reagan hopes to induce the Soviets to go back to the bargaining table by threatening a new arms race...
...release of the 52 American hostages. Out of that conjecture grew a new flurry of rumors that a secret deal was in the works: Iran would give up the hostages it has held for more than 350 days in exchange for much needed supplies and spare parts for the arsenal of U.S. weapons that the late Shah had purchased. Several scenarios, all of them denied by Carter Administration sources, were suggested. One was that there would be an Iraq-Iran armistice at the end of October, after which the hostages would be released as part of a settlement...
They're not rioting in the streets of Sherbrooke or burning buildings in Victoria. They're not building up an extensive military arsenal in the nation's capital or steeling themselves for struggle in the rural towns. Instead, Canada is undergoing a quiet revolution, with the country's leader trying to "patriate" the constitution and the provincial premiers attempting to thwart at all cost a peculiar brand of federalism...
...Paris, French President Valery Giscard d'Estaing told Tariq Aziz that the crisis was a "bilateral affair," best solved by the region's Islamic states. An Elysée spokesman later said that no spare parts for French weapons in the Iraqi arsenal would be forthcoming while the fighting continued. But he said that France would honor a $1.6 billion arms agreement with Iraq involving the sale of 60 Mirage F-l jet fighters, as well as tanks, antitank weapons, radar, guided missiles and patrol boats-all part of an Iraqi attempt to diversify its weapons inventory away...