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They had no trouble agreeing on two issues that had been well sorted out beforehand. The first limits each nation to defending just one locale with anti-ballistic missiles. (The U.S. is protecting a Minuteman missile launch site in Grand Forks, N. Dak.; the Russians are ringing Moscow.) The second agreement strengthens the 1963 treaty banning major nuclear-weapons testing everywhere except underground. Starting on March 31, 1976, both countries will be restricted to testing warheads with yields of less than 150 kilotons-the equivalent of 150,000 tons of TNT. The delay in enforcement will give the Soviets time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DIPLOMACY: Summit III: Playing It As It Lays in Moscow | 7/15/1974 | See Source »

...decision did see a rash of hasslings, raids, busts and prosecutions in Los Angeles, Tulsa, New Orleans, Tampa, Montgomery, New York, Bangor, Detroit, Chicago, Kankakee and elsewhere. Books were quietly shelved in many libraries and even burned (32 copies of Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse Five) in Drake, N. Dak. But, by and large, even smutty books and magazines still sold; the X-rated movies still showed. Says Barney Rossett, head of erotically oriented Grove Press: "Despite the fears, nothing much happened...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: Clearing the Calendar | 7/8/1974 | See Source »

...protect each country's capital, the other to shield an intercontinental-ballistic-missile (ICBM) launching site. So far, each nation has installed ABMs at only one site. Moscow has been ringed by the Galosh ABMs, while the U.S. has protected its ICBM launchers at Grand Forks, N. Dak...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: Summit's Deadly Stakes | 7/1/1974 | See Source »

That longstanding practice is being shattered in the St. Paul, Minn., federal courtroom where militant Indian Leaders Russell Means, 34, and Dennis Banks, 41, are facing assault and other charges related to last year's armed occupation of Wounded Knee, S. Dak. A special team, working with the defense lawyers, is applying inventive social science techniques to give prospective jurors an unusually systematic going-over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: Judging Jurors | 1/28/1974 | See Source »

...place is too remote. After 200 letters went out to Yankton, S. Dak., for Basketball Player Chad Nelson, some recruiters traveled there four or five times to make their pitch. Moses Malone's home in Petersburg has become a clearinghouse for college coaches, and Jerry Eckwood played one of his last football games in Brinkley with 50 recruiters cheering...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Recruiting: The Athlete Hunting Season Is On | 1/21/1974 | See Source »

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