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Thus there is good reason to maintain whatever forms of pressure are available and effective against would-be nuclear powers. Even if all else fails, the U.S. and its allies should press insistently to prevent any of the phantoms from testing a nuclear device. That is more than a cosmetic strategy. As the case of India showed in 1974, the brandishing of the ability to explode an atomic device can frighten other countries, in this case Pakistan, into trying to match the effort. Just as bad, such a demonstration might encourage admiring imitators...
Faced with that possibility, President Carter used discretionary authority to override Congress. After Ronald Reagan took office, the Administration arranged to have France take over the U.S. fuel-supply contract, thus . maintaining the integrity of the Tarapur safeguards, at least until the original supply agreement expires in 1993. Similar efforts were undertaken by the White House to avoid confrontations with Brazil and South Africa on long- standing nuclear-fuel agreements. Without such efforts, the nonproliferation system might be in worse trouble today. Says an official of the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency: "Safeguards work when there is a cooperative...
...failed to mount the sufficiently "diligent" search required before testimony from an absent witness can be used. Rhode Island State Police Detective John F. Reise told the court that he had attempted to locate Isles through New York magazine Theater Critic John Simon, with whom she is said to maintain a close relationship. Simon, Reise testified, reported that Isles "had no intention of returning to testify and that she was out of the country and she would not telephone." Reise said Simon told him that Isles had been intimidated by the "threatening or hate-type mail" she had received from...
...date. Success, however, has brought new challenges. Glass is that rarity, a composer who makes his living composing and performing, not teaching. His facility has never been in question, but since he has transformed the minimalist style from an end into a means, his task now is to maintain both quality and a sense of artistic progress. If such considerations trouble him, it is not apparent. He goes energetically about his work with the rude optimism of a creative artist in full bloom...
...Arab-affairs expert at Tel Aviv University: "The release of all these convicted murderers is going to confuse the issues of justice and respect for the law and make it very difficult to counter Jewish extremist demands." Others argued that the release would make it harder for Israel to maintain its traditional position that there can be no negotiations with terrorists and no compromise with terrorism. But to Peres and his Labor Party colleagues, the prisoner swap was an essential step in ending the war in Lebanon and in living up to another long-standing policy: that Israel will...