Word: deployment
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...SALT agreements on offensive weapons, signed in 1912 and 1919, set modest but helpful bounds on the strategic arms race and high but still useful ceilings on the number of missile launchers and warheads that the Soviets could deploy. The agreements also establish some important rules for verification-that is, the ability of each side to monitor the testing and deployment of the other side's most dangerous weapons. SALT I expired 3% years ago, and SALT II has not been ratified-a victim both of mismanagement by the Carter Administration and of senatorial anger over Soviet intervention...
...understrength, and a confidential Army report rated six of them as "noncombat ready." Overall, the Navy is short 20,000 petty officers, the Army 7,000 NCOS. One of the most important military requirements is the capacity to airlift combat troops to a crisis area, but the Rapid Deployment Force established by President Carter last March cannot begin to deploy rapidly. It lacks airlift and sealift capability and even such basics as adequate communications gear. Its command function is mired in a jurisdictional dispute between the Army and the Marine Corps...
Weinberger also alarmed diplomats in Europe by saying it was "very probable" that the Administration would seek to deploy the so-called neutron bomb with NATO forces. Haig promptly cabled U.S. diplomats abroad, calling attention to Weinberger's further statement that no U.S. decision had been made and that none would be made without full consultation with U.S. allies in Europe...
...says Washington Bureau Chief Robert Ajemian. "Two Presidents coping with high drama, the absolute splendor of an Inauguration eclipsed, if that is possible, by the tension and thrill of the hostage release." Like a general fighting a war on two fronts, Ajemian had to move quickly to deploy correspondents where they were most needed. White House Correspondent Laurence Barrett stayed with President-elect Reagan while Correspondent Neil MacNeil headed up a team assigned to cover the Inaugural speech and ceremony. When word came that the hostages were finally free, News Editor Dean Fischer coordinated long-standing plans to gather information...
...charged with rallying Senate support for the Panama Canal Treaties, for the sale of F-15 advanced jet fighters to Saudi Arabia and for the lifting of the embargo on arms to Turkey. He was also dispatched to Europe to explain Carter's decision not to deploy the neutron bomb, and last year's Olympic boycott over the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan...