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...November 1981, as the U.S. and the Soviet Union were preparing to meet in Geneva, President Reagan proposed the "zero option": NATO would forgo its planned deployment altogether if the Soviets would dismantle a11 of their aging SS-4 and SS-5 missiles, plus all 250 of the more accurate SS-20s then in place (the current number: 351). This offer came to be widely criticized in Western Europe, first by the peace movement and later by some governments, as inflexible and unrealistic. Yet it appears that the zero-option concept originated in Western Europe. It had been mentioned...
...about Soviet SS-20s or U.S. Pershing II and cruise missiles. Reason: the centerpiece of the Soviet position is the demand that the 162 nuclear missiles under independent French and British control be counted alongside those of the U.S. If the proposal were accepted, the U.S. would in effect forgo its deployment plans while allowing the Soviets to keep many of their SS-20s in place. As former State Department Counsellor Helmut Sonnenfeldt told participants at TIME'S Atlantic Alliance Conference last week: "The problem of the British and French forces is probably the single most difficult political...
Last month the President's Commission for the Study of Ethical Problems in Medicine and Biomedical and Behavioral Research offered its recommendations on these questions in a 255-page report, "Deciding to Forgo Life-Sustaining Treatment." The study, the seventh published by the prestigious panel of doctors, lawyers, theologians and others since it started work three years ago, concludes that a competent patient, one who is able to understand treatment choices and their consequences, has the all-but-absolute right to decide his own fate. Declares Dr. Joanne Lynn, a geriatrician and principal author of the report: "An adult...
NASA last week decided to forgo a test firing of the new $30 million engine. Two other test firings, at $1.5 million each, have already taken place. But the space agency still must weigh new quality-control procedures. The crack that ultimately caused the leak was discovered during the engine's manufacture at Rockwell International's Rocketdyne plant in Canoga Park, Calif. The crack was welded, but it was not considered necessary to take the additional step of hardening the weld (cost: about $200,000). Now the space agency faces extra bills totaling about $4 million...
...deploying Pershing II and ground-launched cruise missiles in Europe later this year. A strong peace movement on the Continent, supported by some U.S. advocates of a bilateral freeze on nuclear weapons, also opposes such deployment. In November 1981 Reagan proposed his "zero option," under which the U.S. would forgo this positioning of missiles that could strike the Soviet Union if the Kremlin would agree to dismantle all 350 of its SS-20 missiles, many of which are aimed at targets in Western Europe...