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...timed proposal, but some Nixon critics feel that the President greatly overreacted. As part of the counterattack on Mansfield, the Administration sought to link the arms limitation issue with the troop reduction issue. During the talks, the Russians have insisted that American nuclear weapons in Europe-aboard Sixth Fleet carriers in the Mediterranean, for example-must be included in any arms-limitation agreement. The U.S. has argued that these weapons should be reduced only if the Soviets shave their armaments in Europe as well, including medium-range nuclear missiles. These questions may be taken up in multilateral negotiations among...
...that any satisfactory SALT agreement should cover offensive as well as defensive weapons. The Soviets have made another demand that Washington considers totally unacceptable. They want all nuclear weapons systems capable of reaching Soviet soil-including the 600 U.S. tactical aircraft on NATO bases in Europe and aboard Sixth Fleet carriers -written into any SALT agreement on offensive weapons. Yet they refuse to concede that intermediate-range Soviet missiles capable of hitting Western Europe should also be limited...
Rising production costs and competition from commercial television for advertising are only part of Fleet Street's problem. Thanks to a long tradition of ineffectual management, the newspapers' 40-odd labor unions are able to whipsaw British publishers with wildcat strikes or strike threats close to deadlines that amount to near blackmail. "The unions run our business," concedes Lord Thomson of Fleet, Britain's premier press lord, whose prestigious but money-losing Times is desperate for readers. Adds Thomson: "They even censor our papers...
Fight or Fold. Some of Fleet Street's newer and more modern-minded proprietors, such as Canadian-born Thomson and Rupert Murdoch (TIME, Jan. 12, 1970), are trying to hold the line on budgets and resist union demands. Despite the folding of the Sketch, labor shows no signs of surrendering any of its prerogatives, even at the risk of putting thousands more out of work. Of the "popular" papers, the conservative Daily Express (circ. 3,500,000) and the pro-Labor Daily Mirror (circ. 4,500,000) remain profitable, although both have been losing readers lately to Murdoch...
...Britain today," he says. "It doesn't make sense to have more." Time seems certain to prove him right, and clearly His Lordship hopes the Times will be among the survivors. But unless he can steer it out of the sea of red ink soon, the flagship of Fleet Street just may not make...