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What stymied the talks this time were again relatively minor issues. Both sides, for example, had previously agreed that the number of MlRVs (multiple warheads) on each type of intercontinental ballistic missile would be frozen at the quantity already tested. That meant a maximum of ten for the Soviet monster SS-18. But last December the U.S. detected the Soviets testing an SS-18 in a way that suggested that the missile might soon have the capacity to carry twelve warheads. Since the MIRV freeze is an important selling point in the upcoming battle for SALT II ratification, the Carter...
...because they are more efficient to heat," as one official explains. Journalists were discouraged from wandering off on their own down side streets. But, even along the main avenues, those familiar with the teeming pavements and traffic jams of Seoul, the South Korean capital, were surprised by the small number of people in the streets. The official explanation is that since the industrious North Koreans are exhorted to toil eight hours, study eight hours and sleep eight hours during the six-day work week, there is little time for idling...
Since Congress increasingly favors some sort of excess profits tax on the industry, a number of companies are coming around to a grudging acceptance of the idea, just as long as the levy would contain a so-called plowback provision that would permit them to reduce windfall taxes by investing the money in exploration. Congress could well go along with a plowback. Though Carter has attacked the scheme as a loophole "that you can sail an oil tanker through," he may find that without a plowback he will have real trouble getting...
...response is that the oil companies are trying to do a number on us." Even a high-ranking General Motors executive in Detroit remarks: "The whole thing smells funny...
These seven myths point up a number of paradoxes in U.S. military policy. This country has experienced over 30 years of relative peacetime, yet spends more today on preparation for war than during any past era except for the World War II and Vietnam years. We negotiate strategic arms limitations, yet deploy newer, potentially destabilizing nuclear weapons. We negotiate arms limitations in Europe, yet build up U.S. forces in NATO. We state that new precision-guided, highly accurate technologies are "revolutionizing" the battlefield, yet request funding for increasingly vulnerable, cost-ineffective weapon platforms such as aircraft carriers. And the federal...