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Defenders will try to protect the pact by making sure that any refinements are expressed in the form of "declarations" or "understandings" that do not require negotiating a revised treaty with Moscow. California Democrat Alan Cranston, who will be a leader in the fight for ratification, says Senate approval will ultimately depend not on "who's for or against it" but on "who will withstand the killer amendments...
Conventional force levels. Georgia Democrat Sam Nunn will hold hearings in the Armed Services Committee on steps the West should take to reduce the Warsaw Pact's superiority in non-nuclear weapons. Nunn and others believe that imbalance may be more threatening with the elimination of Euromissiles. He is said to be considering a unilateral declaration of objectives that NATO should achieve after passage of the treaty. INF opponents may push for a more lethal amendment that would bar the President from carrying out the treaty's provisions unless the conventional-arms imbalance in Europe is redressed. Senate Majority Leader...
Verification. The INF pact has precedent-setting provisions that allow the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. to inspect each other's missile sites for evidence of cheating. Some conservative Senators, however, may want an amendment providing for the investigation on demand of "suspect sites" not enumerated in the treaty. That would be strongly opposed by both the White House and the Pentagon. In fact, the Soviets agreed to this idea in principle earlier this year, but the U.S. rejected the notion after defense officials realized it would work both ways; they did not want Soviet inspectors poking around classified facilities...
Compliance. Opponents' best hope might be an amendment requiring the President to certify Soviet adherence to all other arms-control agreements before the INF pact could be carried out. "The beauty of this kind of amendment is that it is very easily understandable to the average American," says Dan Casey, head of the American Conservative Union. "You don't sign contracts with people who have not honored past contracts." Reagan has been backpedaling on this thorny topic. In a report to Congress on arms-control negotiations last March, the President cited compliance with deals in the past as an "essential...
...massed overwhelming firepower to use if the Cubans began harming hostages at either facility, their best weapons proved to be mediators trusted by the Cubans, who worked with federal officials in tedious, often frustrating negotiations. In the Atlanta prison, the Cubans voted to accept a two-page, eight-point pact. When some 200 hard-liners still rejected the deal as inadequate, the majority needed "all of our effort and all of our force," as one detainee put it, to overcome their resistance. Approved in advance by Attorney General Edwin Meese, the agreement will apply to all the Marielitos under detention...