Word: maintainence
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What it does seek to do is maintain a strategic balance that deters nuclear war by allowing each superpower a force that could suffer a surprise atomic strike and still be capable of launching a devastating, unacceptably destructive counterattack. Eventually the SALT process is supposed to enable both sides to maintain the strategic balance at a lower level of armaments, but that still lies far in the future...
...SALT Should Be Ratified: First, because it enhances the security of the U.S. and our allies. Second, it will help maintain strategic stability; it will reduce uncertainties with respect to the force structures of the two sides and thus enable each to plan forces in a more intelligent, less destabilizing way. Third, the treaty is based on adequate verification-not on trust. Fourth-and this is what I'd like to emphasize-we should never lose sight of the awesome horror of nuclear weapons and the incredible effects of a nuclear exchange. Anything that makes those horrors less likely...
...demanded that Syrian troops withdraw from Lebanon, and declared that such Arab states as Syria, Saudi Arabia and Iraq should admit Palestinian refugees now living in Lebanon. The Beirut government angrily declined the invitation, and Premier Selim Hoss dismissed the Begin offer as "blackmail." Lebanon needed the Syrians to maintain order, said Hoss, and in any case the matter was none of Israel's business. Ever ready with an inflammatory phrase, Palestine Liberation Organization Chairman Yasser Arafat vowed that the Palestinian struggle would continue "until we overrun Begin's offices in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem...
These provocative acts embarrassed many Israelis. As onetime Foreign Minister Yigal Allon observed last week, "We must do what is necessary to maintain security, but settlers should not interfere in the security problems of the area." So far, the zealous settlers of the West Bank do not seem to have heard the message...
...their tools are among the most sophisticated. The Chamber of Commerce, the National Association of Manufacturers and the Business Roundtable (made up of the chief executive officers of nearly 200 Fortune 500 corporations) are among the most influential of the business lobbies. In addition, more than 500 corporations maintain lobbying staffs in Washington. These corporations can deduct, as business expenses on their tax returns, the costs of direct lobbying legislators. In addition, trade associations can finance their lobbying activities through the tax deductible dues of member businesses. Individual citizens, on the other hand, enjoy no such tax privileges when petitioning...