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That ought not to be true. As one of its original negotiators, Sidney Graybeal, notes, "The treaty was meant to be a living document, therefore subject to updating as the world changes." And the world has indeed evolved in ways the Soviets surely recognize. While Saddam and Bush are at the top of each other's hate list today, Iraq is geographically much closer to the U.S.S.R. than to the U.S. So is China, which has a sizable arsenal, much of it aimed at Soviet targets. So is Pakistan, with its own nuclear ambitions...
...considered destabilizing because they threatened the American ability to retaliate effectively. But the Soviets responded with huge ten-headed SS-18 missiles that can destroy the U.S. land-based deterrence. These so-called silo busters offer a frightening incentive for a first-strike attack that, says defense analyst Sidney Graybeal, "makes them extremely destabilizing...
...their teaching staffs. In Michigan alone, 6,000 teachers have been given layoff notices. Some 8,000 New York City teachers and 3,000 principals, counselors and secretaries face the loss of their jobs. (In addition, the city will lose 5,000 more teachers through regular attrition.) Says William Graybeal, researcher at the National Education Association: "Conditions are probably worse than they have been for at least 25 years...
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