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...ICBMs to the U.S.'s 1,054 by the end of the year, though the U.S. will maintain a lead in submarine-launched missiles, 656 to 300. Expressing dismay over the Soviet buildup, Nixon pledges that the U.S. will enhance its own security by going ahead with the Safeguard ABM program. Oddly, there is no mention of continuation of U.S. testing of multiple-warhead offense missiles, possibly because the U.S. hopes to discuss controls on the numbers of such weapons when the second round of arms-limitation talks gets under way in Vienna April...
...clarifying such situations -proposed by the Nixon Administration-would be to legalize "preventive" pretrial detention, imposing it after the safeguard of a full hearing. Other reformers place greater emphasis on speeding trials to shorten the time in which an arrested suspect's rights might be abused or he might commit additional crimes. In view of the nation's chronic court congestion, however, the reformers also urge judges to take more immediate steps, freeing most defendants on reasonable bail and using ways other than jail to assure that they reappear for trial and behave lawfully. Obvious techniques include ordering...
Such being the situation, it is an urgent task not only for the Korean people but also for you peace loving people of America to prevent the outbreak of a new war and safeguard peace in Korea...
...camp could impede the talks. Reported Steele: "There is open speculation within the Soviet delegation about who is the real chief of the U.S. team. The Soviets suspect that it is not Smith but former Deputy Defense Secretary Paul H. Nitze, a relative hardliner who backed Nixon's Safeguard program. The Soviets also remain preoccupied by fears that the U.S.'s so-called 'military and industrial complex' will torpedo the talks. In Helsinki, Soviet newsmen continually ask Americans, 'Who has Nixon's ear?'" Some Americans suspect that the Soviets are deliberately playing...
...multiply the destructive ability of each ICBM. The U.S. is probably ahead in MIRV development and could deploy the weapon by late 1970. In ABM, on the other hand, the Soviet Union has ringed Moscow with some missiles, while the U.S. is still in the research stage on its Safeguard ABM system...