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...assured on all sides that a nuclear war is "unwinnable." Why do we pour billions into developing a nuclear deterrent to the Warsaw Pact, while neglecting the immediate problem, the woeful state of our front-line conventional deterrent? The implication is that U.S. strategic thinking is stuck on the antagonistic notion of carrying the ultimate big stick...
...very hard time understanding each other," Saltonstall said yesterday Adminsitrative Vice President Robert H Scott said he was glad to have settled the negotiations and confirmed that the new pact will give Cambridge Steam "a more reasonable return on their investment" in supplying Harvard...
...expired pact had the same structure but included a payment of only $800.000 a year...
Reagan's professed adherence to the ABM pact rings a little hollow when examined against the backdrop of his Administration's overall attitude toward, and record in, arms control and defense. In looking for a way to protect the planned MX from Soviet pre-emptive attack, civilian and military officials of the Pentagon have seriously considered various schemes for ballistic missile defenses, or BMD, a land-based system of antimissile missiles that would require drastic renegotiation if not abrogation of the 1972 treaty...
...fragile finances. In the past three years, Eastern, which hauls more passengers than any other U.S. airline, has lost $158 million and run up a long-term debt of $1.9 billion in an aggressive program to expand and modernize its fleet. Voicing "grave concern" at the cost of the pact, Chairman Frank Borman fretted: "Ordinarily, an event of this nature is cause for satisfaction and relief on the part of both parties. Unfortunately, such is not the case in this agreement...