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...bodyguard count alone is positively Olympian. At full strength, there will be 16,000 armed officers on patrol during the Games. Aiding them will be about 8,000 unarmed private security guards. Dressed in blue-and-tan uniforms, the private guards will monitor the Olympic Villages, event sites and hotel lobbies. They will also be on duty at the warehouses and shipping docks of the food caterers for the athletes, making sure that no tampering occurs and that delivery trucks are properly sealed...
...nuclear warheads by 34,000 to 26,000. It has long been an assumption of both hawks and doves that even though the Soviets had more land-based missiles, the U.S. led in numbers of warheads. Another report, by outgoing NATO Secretary-General Joseph Luns, revised downward the count of Soviet-bloc divisions ready to fight in Europe from 173 to 115 with a total of 4.5 million troops. (NATO now has 88 divisions, with 2.8 million soldiers.) Reagan last week rebuked a Marine deputy chief of staff for suggesting that U.S. and Soviet strength would...
...outcome of the U.S. elections by allowing the Democrats to paint the President as a man not to be trusted with his finger on the nuclear button. One significant danger of the present situation, according to an American specialist in Soviet affairs, is that the U.S. "can no longer count on measured and rational responses" from the Soviets. Says he: "There is no taut line of control in Moscow. The soft leadership situation means that we cannot extrapolate their responses from past behavior...
...build-down was based on a complicated set of equations with different constants assigned to different sorts of weapons. For example, a large Soviet warhead, like one on an SS-18, would count as a certain number of SWS's, a smaller ballistic warhead on an SLBM, a Minuteman III or even an MX would count as fewer SWS's. A bomber armed with cruise missiles would have a greater SWS total than one armed with bombs...
Perle said that he thought the 850-launcher ceiling was "crazy," adding, "Fortunately, we can count on the Soviets to save us from the stupidity of our own proposal by never accepting it." He and other hard-liners like Rostow agreed with Democratic crit ics of the Administration such as Congressmen Albert Gore Jr. of Tennessee and Les Aspin of Wisconsin that arms control should encourage "de-MlRVing," the evolution from a reliance on Hydraheaded missiles to small, mobile, single-warhead ICBMS. A de-MiRved deterrent would theoretically neither