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...installed only 104 of the 572 single-warhead cruise and Pershing II missiles that it hopes to put in by 1988. Paul Nitze, Reagan's special adviser on arms control, said Moscow's new proposal was worse from the American standpoint than the final Soviet position before the breakoff of the Geneva talks in November 1983. Back then, the U.S.S.R. would have kept only 120 SS-20s in Europe, while the U.S. would have deployed no new missiles. U.S. officials further derided Gorbachev's initiative because the Soviets have developed a successor to the SS-20, making the old missile...
...MBFR hiatus came a week after Moscow avoided setting a date for the next round of U.S.-Soviet Strategic Arms Reduction Talks in Geneva over intercontinental nuclear arsenals and three weeks after the Soviet breakoff, with much threatening fanfare by Yuri Andropov, of the Geneva talks on Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces (INF) in Europe. Though the rupture in Vienna was less crucial, it meant that no arms limitation discussions of any kind were under way between the superpowers...
Later in the week, during a meeting with the editors of TIME, Dayan said one major cause for Sadat's breakoff of the political talks was the failure of other Arab leaders to join in the negotiations. "Sadat is desperate not to stay alone" in the talks with Israel, said Dayan. Sadat's hoped-for partner is Jordan's King Hussein. But, said Dayan, "he cannot get Hussein into the process unless he gets an agreement in advance on a West Bank withdrawal and a Palestinian state ... and we are not going...
...huge, intricate engines that power the plane. For reasons that still mystify technicians, one or two of the 138 knife-shaped blades in the engine's second-stage turbine may be breaking off in flight and whizzing out the exhaust in showers of tiny metal slivers. The breakoff is so silent that neither passengers nor flight crew notice it, and because it does not lead to fires or loss of power, it usually goes undiscovered until ground technicians check the plane. The engine troubles have caused no dangerous mishaps so far. Indeed, the 747 is history's safest...
...burden is far more popular than is generally thought. They feel that Nixon is in a bind when he praises the arms limitations of the SALT agreements but at the same time asks for more defense money. The key to acceptance of tax changes, they say, is "the breakoff point" between those who will pay the same or less and those who will pay more. They now say that only families earning at least $20,000 will face higher taxes...