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...Gromyko have initiated a new round of talks. But achieving an agreement will be especially hard now that the U.S. has reopened the issue of strategic defenses. The Soviets are all the less likely to cut back their offensive forces if the U.S. is bent on trying to render "impotent and obsolete" the ones they are allowed to keep...
...called Star Wars plan calls for the development of space shields and weapons to destroy oncoming missiles and enemy satellites--an intergalatic Maginot Line that would, in theory, render an opponent's arsenal impotent. The prospect of militarizing space was sufficiently jarring to bring the Soviets back to the table after they stormed out of talks more than a year ago. The Administration, though, insists, at least officially, that it is determined to press forward with its plans regardless of negotiations...
...countries stayed away, suggesting that the Games would end in terrorism and ruin. Some said that the Los Angeles smog would choke the runners, that the extra traffic would bring the freeways to a fuming standstill, that the Soviet boycott would turn the Games into a * financial disaster and render them athletically meaningless. But nothing of the kind occurred...
...President, however, remains a true believer in a Star Wars program that would render nuclear weapons "obsolete." When Administration officials hinted obliquely that Star Wars could be bargained away in Geneva, Reagan quickly ordered them to set the record straight. Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger and National Security Adviser Robert McFarlane declared that the U.S. had no intention of trading Star Wars for reductions in Soviet offensive missiles...
Disregarding for the moment the potential economic backlash of comparable worth, there remains the practical hurdles of how the government would determine such a pay scale. It would need to consider an infinite number of variables in order to render a fair and equitable system of worker value. Every time a new position is created in the private world, every time a new employee is hired, the government would have to insure that the worker's pay is measured in a systematized way. Should every worker be judged not by his own ability and potential but by the ability...