Word: buildups
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Brown's piercing rejoinder was typical of his performance at the Senate hearings, where he has emerged as the most effective SALT seller. While Brown has urged approval of the accord, he stressed that U.S. military forces must be bolstered to offset Moscow's continuing arms buildup. That SALT II would be no substitute for accelerated U.S. defense spending was argued even more strongly by five other witnesses, the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Chairman David Jones warned the Committee against "the risk that SALT II could be allowed to become a tranquilizer to the American people." Said...
Proposed in 1969 by Pathologist Kilmer McCully, then of Harvard, this thesis also implicates diet, but the villain is protein. Methionine, an amino acid, is broken down by the body into homocysteine, a chemical that promotes atherosclerosis (or the buildup of plaque in the arteries) in lab animals. According to the theory, it is converted by vitamin B6 into an innocuous byproduct, but if there is a deficiency of B6, homocysteine piles up in the blood and causes atherosclerosis. In the view of the theory's proponents, Americans are vulnerable to heart disease because the protective vitamin, which...
Haig will also be a participant in the SALT II debate, elaborating on the warnings about the Soviet military buildup that he sounded as NATO military chief. He told TIME last week: "For 15 years, American restraint has not been matched by Soviet restraint. The growth of Soviet military power has been relentless, reflecting unflagging determination. Are we going to be able to do what is necessary to protect our vital interests under SALT II, or better without SALT II?" While in uniform, he avoided giving his answer to that question, though he was known to have some doubts about...
Turning to the major objections of SALT opponents, Carter maintained that the treaty places "equal ceilings" on both countries' strategic arsenals, "slows down -it even reverses-the momentum of the Soviet arms buildup" and makes future competition on weapons "safer and more predictable." Furthermore, he insisted, "compliance will be assured by our own nation's means of verification, including extremely sophisticated satellites, powerful electronic systems and a vast intelligence network...