Word: geralds
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...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 to identify each warhead accurately), the treaty will limit each side to a combined total of 2,250 ICBM launchers, long-range bombers...
...election campaign, the treaty will be formally submitted to the Senate in early July. The SALT struggle will be a major test of Jimmy Carter's ability as a national leader. Even now his personal prestige could hardly be more completely on the line. He phoned Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford and Henry Kissinger last week, offering them extensive private briefings on the accord. (So far, none of these Republican notables has offered to join the pro-treaty drive.) On the morning that the U.S.-Soviet agreement was announced, Carter was up at dawn to sign letters...
BORN. To Michael Ford, 29, eldest son of the former President and a campus minister at Carnegie-Mellon University, and his wife Gayle, 27; a daughter, Gerald and Betty Ford's first grandchild; in Pittsburgh. Name: Sarah Joyce...
...worst offender is the so-called entitlements program. It was set up under Gerald Ford in 1974 to equalize the burdens of surging import prices between refineries that depend on expensive foreign oil and those with supplies of low-cost domestic petroleum. The complex program works this way: for every barrel of domestic crude that a refinery processes, the company must make a payment into an entitlement pool. The payment raises the price of each barrel of domestic oil halfway up to the cost of more expensive OPEC crude. At the same time, any refinery that imports costlier OPEC crude...
...begun transmitting on a second channel, offering a selection of family programs: G and PG movies rather than the R-rated flicks often seen on the parent service, and a series of quality children's programs. That, says Chairman Gerald Levin, is only the start: "The consumer will be presented with many services from which to choose, each slightly less broad-based, until we get down to a pottery channel...