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...dismantle two older Poseidon submarines the moment the Trident begins sea trials. The Pentagon, contending that the Soviets have already violated the treaty, argues that the Poseidon subs instead should be dry-docked so that they could be quickly returned to sea. Opponents contend that such an outright breach of SALT II would be supremely dangerous because if all limits are scrapped, the U.S.S.R. will be able to increase the number of its warheads much faster than the U.S. However this dispute turns out, the continuing division leaves Washington disinclined to give its negotiators new instructions for the arms-control...
...financial oversight committee of the Review to protect the institute's stake in our venture. We all understood that the SAC's financial advice was the price the magazine paid for its subsidy. Not once in the four years I spent at the institute did the SAC breach those limits...
...signed the budget-balancing bill into law last December, in a suit joined by eleven Representatives of both parties. Last Friday a panel of three federal judges--Antonin Scalia, a staunch conservative; Norma Johnson, a liberal; and Oliver Gasch, moderately conservative--gave a unanimous answer: one key provision does breach the principle that Legislative and Executive powers be kept separate. "Therefore the automatic deficit reduction process . . . cannot be implemented...
...said two future shuttle missions were to use plutonium-powered generators. NASA estimates there is only one chance in 100,000 of a breach in the material holding the plutonium and that a breach would have minimal effect on public health, the Globe said...
...letter, Markey asked for estimates of the explosive force needed to breach the generator, a list of ways in which that could happen and an estimate of the explosive force on the Challenger flight...