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Baker's specific objections to the treaty appeared to offer little hope of eventual compromise with the Administration. He urged, for example, that the Soviets be required to dismantle their 308 huge S59 and SS-18 missile launchers. Their firepower, said Baker, is "equal to all of our strategic ballistic missile systems put together." Drastic cuts actually had been suggested by Carter two years ago-and immediately ridiculed by the Soviets. In fact, the U.S. in the 1960s decided against building anything like the Soviets' SS-9s and SS-18s, which are liquid-fueled ICBMs, and developed instead...
Baker seemed to be suggesting that the U.S. might offer to sacrifice its planned mobile MX missile for a Soviet agreement to give up the SS-18s. That would be a bad deal because the 200 superaccurate mobile MXs that the U.S. plans to build would have up to ten warheads each and would be more than a match for the stationary...
Across the country, the battle is turning increasingly political and is waged by men and women who offer no quarter. It is a fierce clash of fundamental beliefs in which name calling is considered as potent as reasoned argument. Thus the antiabortionists call themselves "pro-lifers" and denounce their opponents as "baby killers." Those who support a woman's right to abortion call themselves "prochoice" and deride the other side as "compulsory pregnancy people...
...quality of life is gradually improving as South Korea's hard-earned wealth trickles down. Life in the cities and the countryside has a long way to go to match that in Japan or the West, but it is far superior to what North Korea has to offer. For many South Koreans, who remember the grinding poverty they endured as a war-destroyed nation just a quarter-century ago, the rewards of modernization still outweigh its abuses-and Park's rule is more tolerable than the alternatives...
...picked their subjects from every walk of life and all parts of the country; 2,143 family members were interviewed. Out of this study, which will be published in the fall as an eleven-chapter book titled Behind Closed Doors: A Survey of Family Violence in America (Doubleday), they offer a dismal statistical portrait of American family life. Highlights...