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Since outright repeal of the speed limit would mean a complete cutoff in federal highway grants, not even the most rebellious states have ever gone through with it. Nevada has come closest, with a new law that couples mandatory seat belts with a 70-m.p.h. speed limit that would take effect on July 1. But Robin Hollibird, a spokeswoman for the Nevada transportation department, believes the law will be over turned in short order. Nevadans, she says, just want to show Washington what they think of the 55-m.p.h. limit...
...Congress has already been battling to limit Star Wars funding, and many arms-control advocates argue that its primary value is as a trade-off in a "grand compromise" that would include deep slashes in offensive weaponry. The natural question will arise: If it actually seemed possible to reduce and then eliminate nuclear missiles from the face of the earth, did it make sense to scuttle such hopes by insisting on the development of a system that is conceived (by Reagan at least) to render such weapons obsolete...
...arms negotiations to resolve--with the U.S. Congress. Democrats in the House had tacked onto a critical spending bill a package of tough arms amendments that the Administration strongly opposed. Among them: a one-year ban on nuclear testing, a proviso that would forbid Reagan to violate the limits set by the unratified SALT II treaty and deep cuts in Star Wars funding. But under public pressure from the President, Congress backed down on Friday, moderating the SDI cuts and settling for a nonbinding resolution urging Reagan to comply with SALT II. The House also retracted its demand for test...
...dangerous arms race, in which one side's defenses would provoke the other side to proliferate offenses? In 1967 the U.S. argued that offense was "good" and defense was "bad." McNamara explained to a skeptical Kosygin that if both sides restricted their defenses, they could afford to limit their offenses; while each would need enough weapons to retaliate against an attack, neither would feel it needed a surplus to overwhelm enemy defenses. Thus the arms race could be regulated and mutual deterrence assured...
...written report to the Congress, that none of those funds will be spent and no decision will be made to deploy an ABM system until after we make every possible effort to negotiate an agreement with the Soviets, which will prohibit deployment of defenses by either side and will limit offensive forces as well...