Word: populars
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this basic notion of disarmament that gives the SALT process its fundamental popular appeal as a worthwhile enterprise. To date, however, arms-control efforts have not had much success. While the 1972 SALT I accord has halted deployment of an antimissile system, it only managed to freeze intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) and submarine-launched missiles at existing high levels. The treaty ignored bombers and did not deal effectively with weapon modernization. Disappointed arms-control advocates hoped that subsequent agreements would slash superpower nuclear stockpiles. The achievements of last week's accord remain relatively modest, but they do go beyond SALT...
...made homeless. What were the Israelis trying to prove this time? Evidently they were prepared to risk everything, perhaps even the peace treaty with Egypt, in an effort to compel the Palestinians to end their terrorist raids on Israel. Recent assaults have been particularly vicious; in fact, the rejectionist Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine described last week's attempted attack on the kibbutz as a "suicide mission." As a result, the Israelis have apparently adopted a policy of pre-emptive strikes and hot pursuit. As Premier Menachem Begin told the Knesset, "We shall attack these murderers...
...dissidents briefly seized the embassy of Costa Rica, while a third group took the French ambassador and his staff as hostages. All the protesters vowed to remain in place until El Salvador's military government released five leaders of a 30,000-member mass movement organization called the Popular Revolutionary Bloc (B.P.R.) who had been jailed in April...
...next day, 20,000 angry mourners attended a funeral for 17 of then victims. They marched through the streets chanting, "The people will not fall before tanks or machine guns." Other groups reacted more violently. On the day of the funeral, guerrillas of the Popular Liberation Forces, one of the three terrorist groups now active in the country, attacked and burned buses in the town of Tecoluca; three persons were killed...
...ordinary American will have to become ever more a student of technical lore. The learned elite will doubtless remain indispensable. Still, the fact that they are exalted over the public should not mean that they are excused from responsibility to it-not unless the Jeffersonian notion of popular self-rule is to be lost by default...