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...Armed Services committees last week added no fresh arguments to those that had been heard many times. Paul Nitze, former SALT negotiator and perhaps the nation's leading SALT critic, sounded his usual warning that the enormous throw-weight (the capacity of a ballistic missile to deliver a payload) allowed the Soviet Union would "tend to nail down a dangerous strategic imbalance." He urged the Senate to postpone consideration of the treaty until the U.S. has strengthened its strategic forces. But the normally hawkish Armed Services Committee chairman, Mississippi Democrat John Stennis, replied that the Senate has devoted...
Indeed, NASA is busily renting out payload space. For $10,000 its salespeople are offering a "Getaway Special," a package for research experiments involving less than 200 Ibs. and measuring under 5 cu. ft. Two early takers: Film Makers Steven Spielberg and Michael Phillips (Close Encounters of the Third Kind) for a project that they are still keeping secret. Eventually the shuttle may be used for far bolder enterprises: assembling solar power satellites that can collect the sun's rays and beam that concentrated energy down to earth; erecting giant antennas that could revolutionize global communications; and putting together...
...monitors Soviet compliance with SALT is to intercept and analyze Soviet telemetry. Last July the Russians transmitted in code ?encrypted?the telemetry from an SS-18 test, including the telemetry about the performance of the warhead?data that are helpful to the U.S. in determining throw weight or payload. The incident assumed political importance, for it went to the heart of the American obsession with verification. Ohio Senator John Glenn, the former astronaut, had already staked out this as "his" issue, on which his vote for or against ratification would largely depend...
...Russians to engage in any encryption whatsoever in their ICBM tests. Vance and Warnke felt Turner went too far. After all, they reasoned, SALT entitles the U.S. to some but not all information about Soviet missile tests. For instance, the number of warheads on a rocket and its payload or throw weight would be governed by SALT II, but not the nature of the guidance system. Therefore encryption should be constrained but not banned altogether...
...Army Corps of Engineers. Meanwhile, three downbound boats, led by U.S. Steel's Roger M. Blough (named for the company's former chief), plough past, distant shapes blurred by a sudden snow squall. The Blough is 858 ft. long and very efficient at lugging a payload of taconite pellets in a straight line. Negotiating the harrowing turns of the ice-clogged shipping channel, though, is not the strong suit of the Blough or of any lengthy ore carrier. Shepherding the flotilla of three past Johnson and Stribling points, the two most treacherous turns en route to Lake Huron...