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...arsenal of land-based nuclear weapons. Last fall some of Secretary of State George Shultz's aides designed a new initiative that might be more acceptable to the Soviets. To minimize the appearance that the Administration was changing course, State Department officials explained that their so-called framework approach was nothing more than an elaboration of the Administration's existing START proposal...
...fact, it would be a dramatic return to more traditional approaches in arms control. The framework borrows heavily from the rules and structure of the SALT II treaty, which was never ratified by the Senate after it was signed by Jimmy Carter and Leonid Brezhnev in 1979 and which the Administration has ritualistically denounced as "fatally flawed." It permits considerably more trade-offs between areas of U.S. strength, bombers and cruise missiles, and those of Soviet strength, ballistic missiles...
Arms-control specialists remain divided over the proposal. Opponents, notably Assistant Secretary of Defense Richard Perle, have denounced the framework approach as a shameless retreat from the U.S.'s original ambitious goals and, worse, a capitulation that would reward the Soviets for their stonewalling and their walkout. The State Department rebuttal has been that START is at a dead end and the U.S. must show...
...thing, the trend was already moving in the State Department's direction. Even though Reagan has yet to focus on the details of the framework approach, he has become tantalized by the idea of achieving a breakthrough before the election. He has authorized Shultz to discuss the possibility of a new START approach with Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko and Soviet Ambassador to the U.S. Anatoli Dobrynin. If there is to be progress, Reagan stressed last week, it will be achieved through "quiet diplomacy." A number of policymakers emphasized that in addition to cooling the public rhetoric...
...same way, Donoso adamantly creates a distance from the outside world, although his novel is richer for its reaching out. He claims throughout that the book is not open-ended. But were it in fact closed, its source of vitality would disappear. Even in the story's framework. Donoso questions the validity of his assertion that art is only artifice. Facades of fiction continuously shatter, and the characters reconstruct them each time. Eventually it becomes impossible to distinguish lies from truth, fiction from reality...