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...principal accomplishment of SALT II was that it slowed that juggernaut down. At the same time, the treaty left the U.S. free to narrow the gap in land-based warheads. When the Joint Chiefs of Staff gave their endorsement to ratification of the SALT II treaty in 1979, they called it a "modest but useful step." Critics on both the left and the right were not willing to go even that far. They stressed what the treaty did not accomplish: it failed to stop, much less reverse, the arms race; it failed to close the "window of vulnerability" by eliminating...
...many Americans and other Westerners, however, the Soviet accumulation of nuclear arms represents something far more menacing. The weapons proliferated so rapidly and so massively during the 18 years of Brezhnev's reign that they conveyed the impression of a juggernaut. American deployments during the same period, while formidable in their own right, tended to occur more in fits and starts...
...European press, the image of Israel as an aggrieved nation has been transformed into that of an avenging juggernaut. Newspapers in Paris have termed Begin a "fascist" warmonger. The West German press, which has traditionally gone out of its way to avoid criticism of Israel, has begun to criticize Begin's belligerency. Die Zeit has decried the Israeli "bloodbath" as going beyond what could be justified as the "eye for an eye" justice of the Old Testament...
...ever more exotic and sophisticated equipment and practices to market, the already high cost of medical care has been rising faster than ever. In the process, the U.S.'s $285 billion-a-year business of curing the ill and diagnosing the diseased has become an inflationary juggernaut that is literally laying siege to the entire economy...
DIED. Raymond ("Buddy") Parker, 68, mild-mannered former Detroit Lions head coach who transformed a woeful, second-division football team into a gridiron juggernaut, winning the national championship in 1952 and 1953; of complications from a ruptured ulcer; in Kaufman, Texas. Parker is credited with the development of the two-minute drill, a predetermined series of plays used near the end of a half or a game...