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Some concessions are being made by both sides, in order to equalize the effect of the final treaty: the Soviets have agreed to limit production of their long-range TU-26 bomber, the Backfire, while we have accepted some limits on range and delivery of cruise missiles. But the overall effect of the treaty will be to curb the growth of the most menacing Soviet armaments, while allowing the U.S. to improve its present defense position. Instead of exposing the U.S. to overwhelmingly superior Soviet strength, as its critics claim, the treaty will shift the arena of nuclear competition from...
...Southwestern University Law School in Los Angeles, and started out specializing in criminal and personal injury cases. He first gained attention in 1963 by winning a major right-to-counsel case before the U.S. Supreme Court. Mitchelson's fame as a divorce lawyer-and his reputation as a "bomber" who can turn a marital split-up into an expensive war-dates from 1964, when he won a $2 million settlement for Actor James Mason's ex-wife Pamela. That case, settled before Mitchelson could call his 43 witnesses and extract lurid testimony about the Mason marriage, established Mitchelson...
...fourth modernization, that of the military, will be almost as difficult to accomplish. Although it has the world's largest standing army (about 3% million), China's military machine is primitive, at least 20 years behind those of the superpowers. China's most potent bomber is the antiquated TU-16 of 1954. The People's Liberation Army
...other main disputes involved the number of cruise missiles that could be put aboard a plane for aerial launching. The Soviets were seeking to restrict the number to 20 per plane, the most that can be loaded onto a B-52 bomber. But because the U.S. is considering outfitting jumbo jets to carry as many as 80 cruise missiles, Vance pressed the Soviets for a compromise that would set an average limit of about 30 per plane...
...bomber costs too much and isn't worth much," Warnke said, adding that large nuclear-powered aircraft-carriers are also not "cost-effective...