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...McCarthy, quoting his every reckless accusation of treason. The nation had to undergo a prolonged and squalid crisis until journalists learned to check out irresponsible charges and give the accused a chance to reply. Spiro Agnew was a nonentity as Vice President until the beleaguered Richard Nixon decided to deploy Agnew to wage a smear campaign against network news bias. Fearful of Government intervention, television gave him more attention than he deserved. Agnew's hour in the spotlight ended not because his charges were disproved (they stuck in many minds) but because evidence of his past crookedness finally caught...
...cost valuable time, however, and in the past few days the pace has quickened. Last week three transport planes left Europe for Ethiopia and are now airlifting food from Asmara, near the Red Sea port of Assab, to Mekele. The European Community, which organized the operation, eventually hopes to deploy ten planes. "The airlift is vital," says Priestley. "But 700,000 people in Tigre need food immediately, and the aircraft must be backed up by trucks. If we don't start widespread distribution, there will be famine camps...
...precluded by the 1972 ABM treaty. The Reagan Administration, under its much disputed "broad" interpretation of that treaty, insists that more advanced research and certain types of tests in space are permitted. In addition, the Soviets seek a guarantee that neither side will withdraw from the ABM treaty to deploy a space-based antimissile system for at least ten years. Dealing with that impasse was the job of the working group that was set up on Tuesday under Paul Nitze, the President's chief arms-control adviser, and Marshal Sergei Akhromeyev, the Soviet armed forces chief of staff...
Reagan outlined his position on SDI during his Wednesday-morning meeting with Gorbachev in the Oval Office. "We are going forward with the research and development necessary to see if this is a workable concept," said the President, "and if it is, we are going to deploy it." Gorbachev listened intently, looking Reagan hard in the eyes as he spoke. When Reagan finished, the Soviet leader replied: "Mr. President, do what you think you have to do. And if in the end you think you have a system you want to deploy, go ahead and deploy...
...matter of fact by agreement we will go forward with our research and development of SDI...with whatever is needed in that development and then, after a certain point, if and when we have succeeded in putting together this initiative, then we will deploy," he said...