Word: lossing
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...precarious state of the health of Israeli Premier Menachem Begin. Begin, 65, who has a long history of heart trouble, was in Hadassah Hospital suffering from what was officially described as a blood clot in a small artery of his brain. It had cost him possibly the permanent loss of 25% of his vision. Doctors and aides alike insisted that the affliction was under control, with the help of anticoagulant drugs, and that Begin's mental processes remained unimpaired. They said that he was cheerfully reading and continuing to conduct government business from...
What has made verification so controversial was the loss early this year of two important CIA listening posts in Iran, close to the U.S.S.R. border. From these sites, U.S. computers and other electronic devices in tandem with spy satellites had been able to monitor most Soviet missile test-firings and hence learn, among other things, the weapons' length, diameter and launchweight. This is precisely the kind of information that will be essential for determining whether Moscow abides by a crucial SALT II restriction: increasing or decreasing key characteristics of an existing intercontinental ballistic missile by more than 5% would...
Despite the loss of the Iranian sites, the Administration insists that the U.S. can adequately verify the arms pact. At last week's hearings, Defense Secretary Harold Brown emphasized that U.S. spy satellites and other means of gathering intelligence keep close tabs on the development, testing and deployment of all Soviet strategic arms. He even claimed that every new Soviet ICBM is detected while still on the Kremlin's drawing boards, presumably a rare public allusion to U.S. cloak-and-dagger activities inside the U.S.S.R. Pointing out that development of a new missile system takes about a decade...
...highly sophisticated electronic devices work-or fail -Glenn is looked to for guidance on verification by many of his Senate colleagues. Said Glenn last week: "I want to vote for SALT, but I want to know that the Soviets are living up to it." He believes that the loss of the Iranian posts left the U.S. with no way of sufficiently monitoring Soviet missile testing. He fears that the U.S. will have more trouble intercepting Soviet telemetry, the performance data beamed back to earth by the test missile. Noted Glenn: "Brown tends to minimize the importance of telemetry, while analysts...
...loss of momentum imperils Carter's program, which was bound to be challenged and changed in Congress anyway. Only the public sense of crisis brought on by the exasperating gasoline lines gave the President the chance to win bold action on long-range plans. That sense of crisis is ebbing rapidly, and gasoline lines are shortening drastically as a result of Saudi Arabia's decision to increase crude production. The less the feeling of urgency, the greater the opportunity for quarreling special interest groups to pick the program apart...