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...Soviets have been accelerating their acceptance of such verification procedures since the 1987 INF treaty, which eliminated intermediate- and short-range nuclear missiles, set up procedures for monitoring their destruction. Soviet inspectors have been present in the U.S. during the demolition of 326 missiles, and Americans have witnessed the destruction of 1,088 Soviet missiles. More than two dozen Americans stationed permanently in Votkinsk, west of the Urals, keep tabs on a plant that once built SS-20 missiles, and a similar number of Soviets in Magna, Utah, monitor what was formerly a Pershing engine plant. Michael Krepon, a Washington...
...will it be easy to monitor proposed reductions in conventional forces in Europe. Thousands of armored vehicles and artillery pieces will have to be destroyed by NATO and the Warsaw Pact, and hundreds of thousands of troops demobilized or redeployed. The treaty language must precisely define differences between aircraft capable of carrying either conventional or nuclear warheads. Under previous verification standards, that task would be hopeless: satellite photography and electronic sensors are not sophisticated enough to count warheads on a missile or peer inside production plants...
...Soviets appear willing to accept increasingly intrusive inspections. To win U.S. ratification of the 1974 Threshold Test Ban Treaty -- still unapproved because of Senate doubts about verification -- the Soviets permitted American teams to monitor an underground test in Soviet Central Asia. In recent weeks Moscow has allowed Americans to inspect cruise missiles aboard a cruiser in the Black Sea and sanctioned a visit to the Sary Shagan complex, which the Pentagon had claimed, erroneously, housed an antisatellite laser...
While the rest of the U.S. economy is still creaking forward, the recession monitor is flashing yellow in Detroit. The reckoning was postponed for months by the Big Three's inveterate optimism, which kept assembly plants cranking out cars as though nothing were wrong, and by Detroit's ever sweetening sales incentives. But by the end of the year's second quarter, evidence of a reversal was clearly at hand: during the first six months of 1989, total car sales in the U.S. fell 7.2% from last year's first half, to 5.1 million...
...complete the circle of neglect, Congress failed to monitor the enormous agency closely. For one thing, since hearings drew scant coverage, members of Congress sought public attention elsewhere. For another, the lawful political benefits of the pork barrel may have tempered criticism of HUD. Former Senator William Proxmire, who was chairman of the HUD subcommittee of the Senate Appropriations Committee, applauds the current congressional probe of the agency. Says he: "That's what we should have been doing. We didn...