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...this dominance used to be offset, in great part, by American preponderance in strategic and battlefield nuclear weapons. But the Soviets have been surpassing the U.S. in some key strategic categories. In ICBMs, for example, the Soviet arsenal jumped from 860 in 1968 to 1,398 today, while the number of U.S. ICBMs has stayed at 1,054. Kissinger repeated what a number of witnesses had already told the Senators: that by the early 1980s, "improvements in missile accuracy and warhead technology will put the Soviets in a position to wipe out" nearly all U.S. land-based ICBMs. Said Kissinger...
...request, until Aug. 23. For one thing, the Administration did not want that debate to be clouded by its current squabble with the Israelis over their opposition to a U.S. plan to replace the 4,000-man armed U.N. Emergency Force in the Sinai with a much smaller number of unarmed truce observers. More important, Washington wanted to buy time for private bargaining over the diplomatic language to be used in a possible new U.N. resolution on the Middle East...
They were among the fortunate; an estimated 300,000 refugees have drowned since 1975 because passing ships refused to help them or Asian governments denied them haven. Such deaths may now decline, however, if only because the number of people fleeing Viet Nam, whose inhumane policies have generated the bulk of the boat people, has dropped sharply. The flow of refugees from Viet Nam declined from 110,000 during May and June to an estimated 22,000 in July, apparently as one result of last month's U.N. -sponsored 65-country conference on refugees in Geneva. There, Hanoi officials...
...third reinspection on March 15, Cremens declared "very little progress." It was not until April 15 that he acknowledged a number of the corrections in the common room in 24 Prescott St. He returned again on April 30 and found more improvements...
...tenants were also worried about the lack of a "Grandfather Clause" in the settlement, protecting people on a fixed income from rent increases above their means. This clause would especially aid the number of elderly who live in the buildings. If the tenants had won this point, a terrible precedent would have been set for Cambridge landlords, Ramseur said...