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...SALT II agreement announced by Vance is still only a working document. U.S. and Soviet negotiators in Geneva will resolve a few technical differences and prepare the final formal wording. The SALT II draft is 76 pages. It contains a preamble, treaty, protocol, statement of principles and several appendices. The treaty itself, which will run until the end of 1985, generally follows the outline set in 1974 at Vladivostok by Brezhnev and Gerald Ford and imposes equal numerical limits on the two strategic arsenals. Using weapon launchers as the basis for measuring these arsenals (it would be almost impossible...
...Vance more conciliatory. But a few weeks ago, when they discovered that they had independently scheduled May Day speeches in Chicago and New York City, the two top policymakers seized on the chance to get together. They conferred by phone, and each read and approved the other's draft. The result: the most comprehensive outline to date of the principles guiding U.S. foreign policy...
Despite all predictions about Kennedy's future-the latest Gallup poll showed him beating Carter 58% to 31% among Democrats-he still remains enigmatic. As draft-Kennedy groups have started forming in Iowa and New Hampshire, and Cleveland Democrats last week called on him to enter the race, the Senator has made personal telephone calls to reassert his unavailability. And yet at the same time he repeatedly offers coy hints and insinuations that he might still become a candidate. A couple of months ago, the Senator told a favorite columnist in Boston that he would go after the nomination...
...Alan Simpson (R-Wyo.) said yesterday the NRC does not have precise regulations governing evacuation plans. He proposed allowing the agency 90 days to draft regulations and then giving the states nine months to comply. His proposal failed...
...Senate committee, which called for a $400,000 study of the accident at the Three Mile Island nuclear facility in Pennsylvania, also approved a proposal that requires the NRC to draft legislation giving the government sole authority to operate a reactor during an emergency...