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This election is no different, despite the presence of two politicians who have been brushed by assassinations: John Connally and Ted Kennedy. Connally, who was wounded by Lee Harvey Oswald in 1963, believes that there is no way a candidate can be made entirely safe. Says an old associate, former...
One reason for such fatalism is that American assassins have generally not been political foes whose acts might be anticipated but psychotics or social misfits who kill for bizarre and unpredictable reasons. Says Robert Delaney, a professor at the Naval War College in Newport, R.I., and an expert on terrorists...
For this campaign, Byrd has prepared himself extensively. He says that he has exhaustively studied the seven-year history of the SALT II negotiations and has read every line of the proposed treaty, a 209-page secret report about the ability of the U.S. to monitor Soviet compliance with SALT...
As part of his strategy, Byrd is demanding that "certain provisions" be included in the Senate resolution approving the treaty. Unlike the "killer" amendments that are being proposed by SALT's critics, Byrd's measures would require no new bargaining with Moscow. But they could eliminate some ambiguities...
Because the Foreign Relations Com mittee is regarded as more pro-SALT than the full Senate, this razor-thin margin was seen as evidence of the rough time SALT II still faces. Indeed, some analysts feel that the pact's toughest and most in transigent opponents have been holding...