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...once, the logic of the Soviet position was difficult to refute. The politics, however, was more complicated. Pentagon planners were uneasy with the prospect that SALT II?which was supposed to restrain strategic nuclear arms ?might end up, willy-nilly, restricting the development and deployment of some conventionally armed tactical weapons as well. West European strategists and politicians were even more concerned. The West Germans, banned by international agreement from having nuclear weapons, were particularly anxious to have access some day to conventionally armed, ground-launched cruise missiles ? latterday buzz bombs. Throughout SALT
American strategists have long feared that the land-based Soviet rocket force, with its core of Hydraheaded heavy monster missiles, might some day be able to destroy all 1,000 Minutemen in a preemptive strike. Brown and Aaron were tantalized by the idea of using SALT II to restrain the MlRVing of Soviet ICBMS in general and to reduce the number of heavy rockets in particular...
...worst flood in the history of Mississippi's capital city was a series of torrential rains (19 in.) during the week before Easter. The runoff water threatened to burst the Barnett Dam, forcing the Army Corps of Engineers to make a hard choice: 1) it could restrain the flow, gambling that the dam would hold, but risking a catastrophe if it did not; 2) it could ease pressure by releasing controlled amounts of water, pushing the Pearl over its levees and into Jackson. It chose the second...
...does not look very lively, after the Teamsters won wage-and-benefit increases that stand to amount to 31%% over three years. Naturally, the 1.5 million member U.A.W. would like to match the Teamsters' sweet deal. Fraser contends that the President's guidelines restrain wages while allowing prices and profits to rise. Angered by the Government's intervention in the Teamsters' negotiations, he warned against interference by Carter's arbiters during the U.A.W. talks. Said Fraser: "My advice is that they should stay the hell away and let us settle with the auto companies by ourselves. They will...
Jimmy Carter may never make a speech like this, but he should. A combination of events has seriously disabled the CIA at a time when its services are needed more urgently than ever. To guide its foreign policy, to help its friends and restrain its foes, the U.S. must have adequate intelligence from those areas of the world where information is suppressed, confused or conflicting. The nation cannot afford to be caught off guard by sudden hostilities in the festering arc of crisis or in the vast arenas of Asia where Communist giants collide. With weapons technology advancing more rapidly...