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...would be inclined to forgo continued development of a mobile U.S. nuclear missile launcher (the MX) if the Soviet Union will abandon deployment of its track-mounted launcher (the SS-20). Such mobile launchers greatly complicate the job of detecting and destroying each other's missiles and are considered a destabilizing element in a policy of mutual deterrence...
...Hippocrates Savvouras. Savvouras, who admitted that the illegal arms were his (Greece has a strict antigun law), was kicked out of his party. Two prominent members of militant Socialist Andreas Papandreou's Pan-Hellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK) were also caught in possession of five Kalashnikovs and a rocket launcher. Both were tried and received suspended sentences...
...least partly reflect a residual sense of inferiority about Soviet technical skills. Until Stafford and ins men made it plain that they would not fly the ASTP mission if they could not inspect their partners' hardware, the Russians refused even to show them Soyuz and its launcher. When the Americans finally saw the spacecraft, they realized why. The Soviet equipment seemed even less sopinsticated than it had been reputed...
...twelve to 14 hours a day, six days a week, the sergeants drill their charges on the use of such weapons as the M-16 rifle and the M-79 grenade launcher, and teach them how to survive on the battlefield. The recruits "attack" while machine guns are fired over their heads, are ambushed by a tear-gas attack and end up marching 15 miles and bivouacking in the field for a week. The men have to pass a final exam in combat skills. Anyone who flunks twice has to take the entire seven-week course over again...
...worth noting that the agreed launcher level is lower than that of the U.S. some ten years ago. If the Vladivostok guidelines are converted into a definitive ten-year agreement, it should provide a good measure of certainty as to the maximum number of launchers in the Soviet strategic forces over the next ten years. That would be invaluable information for U.S. forceplanning during this period. Concerns about growing vulnerability of ICBMS are not laid to rest by this agreement, but one can now estimate this danger with greater precision-and, if necessary, make changes in U.S. forces...