Word: pact
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Kicking off the testimony last week were two of the Administration's most important SALT-sellers: Vance and Defense Secretary Harold Brown. They presented powerful arguments on behalf of the pact. Vance stressed that the accord "will greatly assist us in maintaining a stable balance of nuclear forces. It fully protects a strong American defense." Taking aim at critics who argue that SALT II is a bad deal for the U.S., Vance emphasized that the treaty "will permit, and in fact aid, the necessary modernization of our strategic forces. And it will slow the momentum of Soviet strategic programs...
Their verdict on SALT II: a qualified O.K. Said Jones: "All of us judge that the agreement... is in the U.S. national interest and merits [the committee's] support." Choosing his words carefully, he characterized the pact as "a modest but useful step" toward arms control. Chief of Naval Operations Thomas Hayward was still more cautious. Said he: "I want you to understand that I and the other chiefs are not raging enthusiasts for many features of the treaty." Among other things, they are distressed that the pact: 1) does not classify the U.S.S.R.'s new Backfire supersonic...
...German Chancellor Willy Brandt, who also joined the talks, had "gained the impression" that the P.L.O. "no longer insisted on the destruction of Israel." Arafat, however, gave no sign that the P.L.O. was backing down on the Middle East peace accords, which he had earlier denounced as "a war pact engineered by the imperialist...
...proved to be a temporary turning point. In that year a Peruvian government undertook to save the animals by creating a 16,000-acre preserve called Pampa Galeras in the windswept highlands in the southern part of the country. Peru also signed a pact with Bolivia that banned for ten years the hunting of vicuna and the sale of products made from the animal; subsequently, Chile and Argentina joined in the La Paz Convention. In 1973, 51 nations voted to place the vicuña on the endangered-species list and bar it from the commercial market...
Byrd has not made up his mind about the treaty, and the Carter White House badly needs him on its side if the pact is to stand any chance of passage. Thus the Administration accommodatingly lent Byrd Carter's own back-up jet, Air Force Two, a passel of State Department arms control experts as traveling companions and, as tour guide, Malcolm Toon, the testy U.S. Ambassador to Moscow. To shepherd Byrd around the Soviet Union, Toon will have to skip his embassy's July 4 celebration and his own birthday party (he will...