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...This informal proposal, worked out exclusively between Nitze and his opposite number Yuli Kvitsinsk, would have "traded" deployment of the Pershing lls for a significant reduction of the SS-20s. Talbott describes with withering sarcasm the process by which the Administration repudiated Nitze's action, seeming to put the onus for stalemate on Washington. But he ends his chapter lamely with this...
...nations are serious about mucking up the Games, however, a single site would not deter them. No permanent location would prevent an act of terrorism such as made a tragedy of Munich in 1972. And if the will is there, an individual name can take on the magnitude or onus of a nation...
...onus on Mondale this year is to make concessions to the formidable plans of his colleagues: he must satisfy the demands of the Black and the poor that Jackson represents; he must answer to the demands for nuclear control that his colleague Senator Cranston is demanding; and he must turn his attention to the budgetary statements of Hollings. Hollings has interpreted the long term strategy of Reagan's deficits as nothing less than the deliberate crippling of the Welfare state...
...this story fades into the history books, a couple of morals--or at least questions--need to be raised. One, of course, regards costs. All officials concede that the price tag is inordinately high for the relatively small amount of square footage involved. Some have tried to put the onus on the Historical Commission for imposing byzantine regulations. "They certainly call the shots. Harvard really had little flexibility." George Oomen, project manager, says. And perhaps some of the blame does lie there...
...give it up and rely solely on cruise missiles to counter the remaining SS-20s. But other ballistic missiles already in the U.S. strategic arsenal can cover the same targets as the Pershing II. Moreover, by refusing to back the deal, Washington missed a chance to put the onus for its collapse on the Soviets. The Administration may have a second chance now. The West Germans are promoting a revival of the plan, and the Soviets are saying they would "discuss" it. Their half of the discussion is likely to be another nyet, but there is only...