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...picture of how-things-might-have-been that emerges from the relaxed mind of Gerald Ford, ensconced last week at the edge of Thunderbird's glorious fairways in Palm Springs. If he had been elected two years ago, Ford goes on, he would have kept the B-l bomber moving, gone ahead with the neutron bomb and the M-X missile. He also would have had less trouble than that fellow now in the White House in getting a Panama Canal treaty approved, in ending the Turkish arms embargo and in selling planes to Saudi Arabia...
Washington, in turn, has considerable reason to be irritated with the Soviets. Despite the Administration's cancellation of the B-l bomber and deferral of a decision on the neutron bomb, moves that Carter hoped might bring some corresponding gesture from Moscow, the Russians have shown little flexibility in SALT or in the talks to control conventional arms in Central Europe. Instead, they have continued expanding their military arsenals at a brisk pace. They also concealed sophisticated bugging equipment inside the U.S. embassy in Moscow and launched a campaign of harassment against American businessmen and journalists...
Carter's decisions to cancel the B-l bomber and shelve the neutron bomb were decisively rejected in the survey. A startling 56% of the respondents feel that any treaty with the Russians limiting nuclear weapons would be too risky. Only 32% favor a new SALT agreement. Although Carter counts the Panama Canal treaty a distinct success, the voters who were polled feel otherwise. By 50% to 33%, they consider it a mistake...
...page manifesto shrilly criticized the "feckless handling" of the situation in the Horn of Africa, the abandonment of the B-l bomber, the withdrawal of ground troops from South Korea, the 'neverending series of gaffes" in Middle East policy, and the "placating" of militants in southern Africa. Charged the Republicans: "In 15 short months of incoherence, inconsistency and ineptitude, our foreign policy and national security objectives are confused, and we are being challenged around the globe by Soviet arrogance...
...Russians are getting away with too much in the world today and that, as last week's statement by the Republican Senators charged, the Carter Administration is to blame. Carter has undoubtedly made tactical errors in dealing with Moscow and may have been wrong to cancel the B-l bomber. But it is also too easily forgotten that tough talk and gestures do not amount to coping with Moscow. As far as local conflicts with the Soviets or their agents are concerned, post-Viet Nam America abhors any form of foreign intervention, and a President's means...