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...stockholders in the two firms would trade their shares one for one for stock in a new holding company. Under the terms, according to sources at Occidental, Diamond Shamrock would have become a wholly owned subsidiary of the new company. On Sunday night, Hammer and Bricker announced a tentative pact...
...what they most wanted: a U.S. commitment to discuss Star Wars in the same general forum with offensive weapons. If it could not hold Star Wars off the table entirely, Washington had wanted to keep talks on offensive and defensive systems separate. Its hope was to conclude a pact that would sharply reduce the numbers of missiles and warheads without agreeing to any limit on the Star Wars program. But even if the Soviets should agree to deep cuts in offensive weapons, the formula worked out at Geneva gives them a chance to demand that defensive systems also be limited...
...imagined a time when those weapons could be rendered "impotent and obsolete" by deploying an array of kinetic-energy projectiles, lasers, directed particle beams or other exotic devices that would prevent enemy warheads from ever reaching their targets. No more threat of intercontinental mass homicide, no more superpower suicide pact, no more Mutual Assured Destruction. In place of that MADness would be pure protection: a defense that defends and a deterrence that deters by threatening to destroy weapons, not people...
...soldiers scoured the border area by helicopter and snowmobile in the bitter cold, officials quietly checked with Moscow to see what had happened. President Mauno Koivisto declared in a New Year's message that cruise missiles were causing "insecurity" in Scandinavia and called on both NATO and the Warsaw Pact to accept a ban on such weapons in northern Europe. But his remarks had been recorded a week earlier and were not precipitated by the wayward missile. In Norway, the government decided to send a note of protest to the Soviet Union, but the Norwegian defense chief, General Frederik Bull...
There was some speculation last fall that Ogarkov might have taken over command of the western forces of the Warsaw Pact or that he had been appointed head of the Voroshilov Academy of the General Staff in Moscow. The obituary, however, placed his name alongside those of the chiefs of the Main Political Directorate of the Armed Forces, which oversees the Communist Party's control over the military. If Ogarkov has indeed become a sort of political commissar, it would be an ironic appointment for a career officer with a reputation for being at odds with the party's views...