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...managed nevertheless to fill his "SALT notebook"- overfill it, to be precise. His expanded version of this week's Special Report will be published by Harper & Row as Endgame: The Inside Story of SALT II. Is that the last word? Not at all, says Talbott. "Preparations for SALT III are already under...
...George III Kept His Head Re your account of the Reign of Terror [April 23]: perhaps the reason the "American Revolution was a notable exception" to the usual postwar "period of vengeance and terror" is that it was not a revolution. To be a revolution, an armed rebellion must overthrow the central government and replace it with a new system of government. The Americans successfully established a republic not by overthrowing a government but by kicking out a colonial administration. George III kept his head, and Lord North lived to see the early stages of the French Revolution...
...keep options open on systems that we don't really need. If you keep options open on systems that are never going to be used, then you've just complicated the negotiating process unnecessarily. I think this is an important lesson for the future-for SALT III. Second, I think there is a need for greater input in the way of arms-control considerations into the planning of military force structures. As we come to see our security interests best advanced by a stable and lower-level military balance, we will learn to integrate more effectively arms-control...
...Kirkland is more conservative than other Houses, and Bok was obviously playing to the crowd," said James F. Hughes III...
...allowing improving accuracies and yields in ICBMs, SALT does not solve the long-term problem of vulnerability of land-based systems. This is a goal for SALT III. It also will not limit military spending and may very well increase it. The U.S., in not atypical fashion of "negotiating through strength," is deploying the new Trident submarine; the projected ten Tridents will cost the taxpayer about $20 billion. Additional systems, under consideration as "bargaining chips" to obtain Senate ratification of SALT, are the MX ICBM at $30-50 billion, and several thousand air-launched cruise missiles at $30 billion...