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...hearings recessed at week's end, after a month of testimony, SALT II's chances in the Senate seemed perceptibly brighter. The accord's opponents have mostly failed to dent the Carter Administration's key argument that this agreement is better than no agreement. Exclaimed a White House aide: "No one laid a glove on the treaty itself...
...many significant categories of weaponry." He pointed out that while the Kremlin long has led in conventional forces, this dominance used to be offset, in great part, by American preponderance in strategic and battlefield nuclear weapons. But the Soviets have been surpassing the U.S. in some key strategic categories. In ICBMs, for example, the Soviet arsenal jumped from 860 in 1968 to 1,398 today, while the number of U.S. ICBMs has stayed at 1,054. Kissinger repeated what a number of witnesses had already told the Senators: that by the early 1980s, "improvements in missile accuracy and warhead technology...
...Gary Hart, 41, relishes the role of maverick. Says the Democratic Senator from Colorado: "It is difficult to put me in a category. I strike out on my own." In his first term, Hart is already an influential member of three key committees: armed forces, environment and budget. An independent on most issues, he strongly supports SALT II and favors tighter federal control over nuclear power plants. But he also favors less
...news put further pressure on the dollar, which in the past two weeks has slumped to eight-month lows against key foreign currencies, sent gold climbing to glittering new heights, and made a mockery of the Administration's repeated assertions that the double-digit run-up in living costs would slacken this summer and abate substantially by year...
...key to the sport's growth has been the improved quality of the skates themselves. Equipped with the quiet and smooth-rolling polyurethane wheels and precision ball bearings that were developed for skateboards, the new skates have better traction and more maneuverability than the noisy metal strap-on models that kids used to rattle around on. Says Harry Ball, 61, president and owner of the California-based Sure-Grip Skate Manufacturing Co., which this year will double its 1978 sales of over $5 million: "The new skate is no longer a toy but a piece of athletic equipment...