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...proposal requires a quid pro quo and leaves nothing to guesswork. If Moscow really wants to end the peril of fallout (the Moscow test series last October gave North America the heaviest dose of radioactive material ever), it has no excuse for further delay. Meanwhile, as soon as the President lifts the ban on underground and space testing, U.S. planners can get on with sorely needed nuclear development (clean bombs, anti-missile missiles, compact Army and Navy weapons and pure-science experiments) at a time when such strength can be the tranquilizer for Communist-inspired tensions in Germany, the Mideast...
...Quid Gloves. In London, Scotland Yard discreetly looked into the matter of a counterfeit ?1 note that turned up in the bar of the House of Commons...
...over to the nearest pub, puts the bite on the barmaid (Kay Walsh), a middle-aged drab with a face, as Cary expressed it, "as blank as a sanitary brick." But she observes that Guinness is nothing but a "dirty old man," and besides he already owes her four quid nine...
...ante worried Hays more than the morals of the matter ("I do not know what the quid pro quo was") or the economics ("He is doing what the President says -'Buy Now' "). To keep it from soaring higher at U.S. expense, Hays introduced an amendment striking out $400,000 in military aid and $200,000 in technical assistance funds to Trujillo...
Between these two major points there was no quid pro quo; the U.S. was not forced to accept negotiation in order to get European acceptance of missiles, nor were the other NATO powers forced to accept missiles to establish the offer of negotiations. Many NATO countries had long been importuning the U.S. to provide them with modern weapons. But U.S. negotiators came to realize, more sharply than before, that the leaders of most NATO nations needed, for political reasons, to couple acceptance of missiles with a reiterated promise that the West is always ready to listen to practical offers...