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Helmut Sonnenfeldt, a former aide of Henry Kissinger's who is now at the Brookings Institution, believes that the core questions of nuclear-arms control will have to await a number of other developments. Before it would be prudent for the U.S. to make any adjustments in its negotiating positions in INF or START, he says, the Soviets will have to show flexibility in the talks between NATO and the Warsaw Pact on conventional forces that are due to resume in Vienna next month. They should agree to "confidence-building measures," like the ongoing negotiations over upgrading the Moscow...
...fretting is prudent in the unpredictable arena of primary politics, but it is probably unwarranted. A new nationwide poll of Democrats and independents taken for TIME by Yankelovich, Skelly & White, Inc. shows that Mondale is still on a roll. Last December his lead over John Glenn was 34% to 18%; now it has jumped to 50% to 18%, a leap of 16 percentage points. Worse yet for Glenn and the other candidates is that the undecided vote has fallen from 26% to 14% in that period, with most of those who made up their minds apparently choosing Mondale. Perhaps wishfully...
...Prudent parents, even if they were dedicated ski bums during their own college years, may decide that the cold, crisp joy of schussing to bankruptcy is best left to singles with incomes at or above the orthodontist level. Not at all, say the business-oriented swifties who are taking over the management of big ski resorts from the old 10th Mountain Division veterans who founded them. The ski biz needs families to fill all the lifts and hotels it built during the past two decades and to pay the notes on the expensive snowmaking equipment it continues to install...
...movie is billing itself as the first serious drama to explore another forbidden television topic: father-daughter incest. (Brother-sister love was peeped at earlier this year by NBC'S Princess Daisy.) The two-hour show Something About Amelia, scheduled for Jan. 9, is receiving the prudent treatment that is usually accorded "controversial" subjects. Its promotional material comes replete with warnings for parents and a scholarly bibliography. Nevertheless, despite the effluence of manufactured sanctimony, Amelia is a taut and honest, if somewhat monochromatic, treatment of a painful subject...
Such a hedging enterprise is simply prudent. But working to achieve a decisive edge for the U.S., whatever the superficial appeal, could be dangerous. Deterrence of nuclear war is based on the concept of mutual assured destruction. As long as the U.S. and the Soviet Union each believes that the other would respond to a nuclear attack with a devastating nuclear salvo of its own, neither will risk a first strike. Deterrence requires nuclear stability, with both countries in a state of certain nervous vulnerability-sufficiently well-armed to retaliate if attacked but not strong enough to gamble by launching...