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...early in SALT, many experts believe, the chance of real progress toward arms limitation is small. If both the U.S. and the Soviet Union proceed to MIRV deployment, the ensuing uncertainty would make a freeze on nuclear weaponry almost impossible to achieve. Policing an agreement to regulate the number of warheads installed in missiles would not be feasible. Spy satellites can count launch vehicles, but not their contents. Even an inspector on the ground would have to take a missile nose cone apart and physically count the number of warheads inside. Neither side will readily agree to let the other...
Further, mutual deterrence would be put in question. Since MIRV would multiply many times the number of warheads either side could deliver against the other, a thin ABM system like Safeguard would not be sufficient to preserve enough of the defender's missiles to allow him to strike back effectively after a massive surprise attack. Thus, the temptation to deliver a pre-emptive strike in an acute crisis like the Cuban missile confrontation would increase. This new step-up in the arms race,* coupled with the Safeguard ABM, would cost the U.S. at least $20 billion and could lead...
After five years of urban disturbances, the U.S. has become inured to grim box scores: the number of people killed, injured and arrested, the dollars lost from looting and arson. Recently, however, there has been a shift toward a different pattern of violence. The old-style, spontaneous and omnidirectional ghetto riots-such as those in Watts, Detroit and Newark-have been declining since 1967. Instead, city after city has seen a series of small-scale, sometimes premeditated and often fatal armed clashes. "Race-related disorders," reports Brandeis University's Lemberg Center for the Study of Violence, rose from...
...rooms. Businessmen gloomily foresee a slow year for profits. Consumers, despite their affluence, feel financially strapped and vexed to the point of outrage at the soaring prices they must pay for both the necessities and the luxuries of life. President Nixon says that an attack on inflation is his number one domestic priority. His economists, led by Chairman Paul McCracken of the Council of Economic Advisers, are guiding a delicate effort to control inflation gradually and avoid bringing on the recession that Nixon deeply fears...
...assassination was marked by the reminiscence of columnists, the rebroadcast of old TV interviews, and the celebration of memorial Masses. But probably the most effective remembrance was the publication last week of Jack Newfield's Robert Kennedy: A Memoir (E. P. Dutton; $6.95). It brings-to three the number of full-length retrospectives by relatively young, able journalists who both knew and admired their subject. Each differs in tone and focus, and each has qualities the others lack...