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...Council meeting last week had elements to placate all sides of the Administration's fractious arms-negotiating team. In a significant victory for Secretary of State George Shultz, Reagan decided to scrap two American submarines to continue--for now--compliance with the unratified SALT II treaty. Yet to please Pentagon hard-liners, he set the stage for "proportionate responses" to alleged Soviet violations. Work will be accelerated on the small single-warhead mobile missile known as the Midgetman and on an advanced radar-evading cruise missile. He proposed a study of yet another new mobile missile, dubbed Mobileman, which would...
...designed to please strategists who favor the small mobile missiles. Their reasoning: compared with the Minuteman and the new MX, the truck-carried Midgetman will be less vulnerable to a pre-emptive strike and less destabilizing because it cannot threaten a knockout blow of its own. Many in the Pentagon, however, would like to put more warheads on the Midgetman and make it larger. Hence Reagan's decision to order study of a possible Mobileman missile, carrying as many as three warheads. Adding warheads, opponents protest, will make the weapons more destabilizing and could prompt the Soviets...
...brief" for a comment on Libya. They oblige (ah, the power of the press!) and even though neither has much to say, the effect is theatrical. Rather is also adept at another device to give urgency to a breaking story. When someone like David Martin, CBS's able Pentagon correspondent, finishes his piece, Rather throws an on-camera question at him. Martin is ready with an answer, but the impression lingers with the viewer that only the anchorman had the perception to see that the point needed making. Presumably this time-consuming gimmick, used increasingly by the networks, makes...
...crime was shrouded in secrecy and intrigue. Pentagon officials said only that it was one of the worst cases ever involving the diversion of Western computer technology to the Communist world. Clearly, though, the U.S. had been severely stung by East-bloc espionage agents, who had managed to place in Moscow's hands some $11 million worth of high-tech hardware that could be used in space-based missile defenses...
...managing editor in 1969 and the newly created post of executive editor in 1977. At the helm of the newspaper, he stressed good writing, brought such fiefs as the Washington bureau and the Sunday staff under his control and, in landmark cases like the 1971 publication of the Pentagon papers, became a strong crusader for the press's First Amendment rights...