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...Soviets began deploying monster SS-18 superrockets, which can carry as many as eight independently targetable warheads, despite a treaty provision that forbids the converting of land-based "light" ICBM launchers into vehicles for "heavy" ones. But since SALT I does not define "light" and "heavy," the Administration decided that there was no violation. The report promises that this loophole will be closed in SALT...
...arms race. Nonetheless, Brown argues: "Military superiority on the part of the Soviet Union?real or perceived ?is not a condition that the U.S. and its allies can or need accept." The goal, he feels, is to stabilize the current U.S.Soviet balance through arms negotiations. A new American ICBM, for example, might no longer appear necessary if the Soviets dismantle some of their monster rockets...
...Understandably, the Soviet Union is concerned about the new American warheads. Last week Georgy Arbatov, head of Moscow's U.S.A. Institute, which analyzes American affairs and advises the Kremlin, was spreading the word in Washington that the upcoming improvements were more worrisome to him than the advanced U.S. ICBM-the M-X- which still exists only on paper, or the cruise missile, which has yet to be deployed and is too slow to be used in a surprise attack...
...soft" on defense. Following the Ford defeat, the crusade for higher defense spending intensified in an effort to force favorable decisions from the new President on a multitude of major weapons projects--including the B-1 bomber, the strategic cruise missile and the M-X, a new, land-mobile ICBM...
...Caribbean frontage in Colombia (asking price: $1,700,000), 454 acres on a Fiji island ($1 million) or 30 acres in Tahiti ($150,000). Mountaintop retreats? Van Haefton has 20 of them. Also an Indian burial ground in California, a 1,400-acre canyon in Mexico, an obsolete ICBM base in New York State. As for whole islands, Rare Earth lists 400 for sale, including, Van Haefton says, "one in Nova Scotia for $16,000 and another in the British Virgins for $8 million...