Word: mutuals
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Such a hedging enterprise is simply prudent. But working to achieve a decisive edge for the U.S., whatever the superficial appeal, could be dangerous. Deterrence of nuclear war is based on the concept of mutual assured destruction. As long as the U.S. and the Soviet Union each believes that the other would respond to a nuclear attack with a devastating nuclear salvo of its own, neither will risk a first strike. Deterrence requires nuclear stability, with both countries in a state of certain nervous vulnerability-sufficiently well-armed to retaliate if attacked but not strong enough to gamble by launching...
...Tsipis, "talks will be enormously more difficult." Congress last month decided the space-weapons threshold should not be crossed willy-nilly: ASAT target practice in space may start, the Senate stipulated, but only if the U.S. tries "to negotiate in good faith with the Soviet Union a mutual and verifiable ban on anti-satellite weapons." Says Republican Senator Charles Percy: "This is a unique opportunity to halt a major arms race before it gets off the ground." As progress on other U.S.-Soviet arms-control fronts slows and sputters, that opportunity seems urgent indeed and the consequences of missing...
Arms talks between the U.S. and USSR are now limited to Mutual and Balanced Force Reduction talks, which seem doomed to failure, and crisis prevention talks...
...role fits the summit's deliberately improvised format. Almost the only rule of Commonwealth summits is that there are no written rules and no formal votes. Instead, the leaders, who represent one quarter of the world's people, gather for a week-long discussion about matters of mutual concern. The summit's closed-door sessions are conducted on a first-name basis and, of course, in English. Actions are taken only by consensus...
...Muammar Gaddafi. In August, Columnist Jack Anderson placed him in the Nicaraguan bush. A month later, NBC reported that he was masterminding a major drug-smuggling operation out of the Bahamas. But Financier Robert Vesco, who fled the U.S. in late 1972 after being indicted on charges of swindling mutual-fund investors out of $224 million, has not surfaced publicly since he was expelled from the Bahamas two years...