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Particularly dispiriting was the sense that the U.S. was becoming so bogged down in immediate problems???how to safeguard the Marines, how to keep the Lebanese government from falling apart?that it could not concentrate on the search for a wider peace in the Middle East. With the U.S. battening down for the coming presidential-election campaign, not much in the way of hard thinking could be expected on that front. Nonetheless, the Administration maintained that it was making some progress. The Syrians are still dealing with the U.S. Ambassador in Damascus, and have generally been less bellicose in private...
...responsible government would be, the regime is clearly worried about the catalogue of social ills ?increasing alcoholism, crime, divorce and youth problems???not so much as a breakdown in ideology but as a breakdown in social discipline. It is also concerned that these problems are occurring just as the U.S.S.R. becomes more vulnerable to "contamination by agitation and propaganda" from the West. Shortwave broadcasts by the Voice of America, Radio Liberty, BBC and Deutsche
That left some relatively minor problems???and one very big problem: Soviet encryption of missile telemetry. Telemetry is the remote electronic means by which a rocket or a warhead sends back to earth data about its performance during a test flight. One way the U.S. 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...
...strides, not without controversy. Calling cigarette puffing "slow-motion suicide," he has added $8.5 million to HEW's $30 million-a-year antismoking campaign. A reformed puffer, the Secretary is pushing the crusade with the righteous zeal of a convert. He argues that reduced smoking would cut back health problems???and the resulting HEW expenses...
...believe a war should be continued." He spoke warmly to Hanoi. He insisted that the Oct. 31 deadline had been Hanoi's creation, and that while he had promised "a major effort" to meet it the U.S. did not feel bound by it. Things had been delayed by various problems???the most important of which seemed to have arisen in Saigon. But he "understood" Hanoi's disappointment, and reassured the North Vietnamese that "peace is within reach in a matter of weeks or less," provided that the two sides held "one more" session in Paris of perhaps three or four...