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Smith conceded that some amendments might be necessary to get SALT II ratified. His count of likely votes in the Senate differs from Perle's: "Roughly speaking there are 40 to 42 votes that you could project would be for the treaty and about 17 against. There are about 41 in between." Some "clarifying" amendments spelling out in detail what the U.S. understands by the treaty without substantively changing the treaty might be necessary to win over enough of the middle group...
...Senators that Perle advises "really is to kill the treaty through amendments. Such amendments are designed to go over ground that has been negotiated for years by three Administrations, amendments designed to reverse the final compromise on a given issue. A case in point: insisting that the Backfire be counted as a heavy bomber" and thus as a strategic weapon. On the other hand, Smith said, an amendment could specify "that the U.S. has the prerogative of developing a similar bomber without having to count it against our total of strategic launchers. That's not a killer amendment...
...shores, giving much new force to the antinuclear movement. The West German government two weeks ago had to scuttle plans to build a nuclear reprocessing and waste-storage facility at Gorleben, near the East German border, after a Harrisburg-inspired protest by environmentalists and "citizen initiative" groups. Said Count Otto Lambsdorff, West Germany's Economics Minister: "This could be the death knell for our whole nuclear policy, including the export of nuclear plants...
...Diane White, 35, of the Boston Globe, who can count Baker among her fans. White has been writing a column of gentle, occasionally self-mocking humor since...
...Count Vay de Vaya, a Hungarian traveler in America...