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...already tested its Hydra-headed MIRV (for multiple independently targeted re-entry vehicle), which enables one launcher to drop separate nuclear warheads on widely scattered targets. The Soviets are working on the same weapon, though the U.S. is generally thought to be ahead. Defensively, the U.S. Safeguard antiballistic-missile system has just narrowly won Senate approval; the Soviets already have 67 relatively unsophisticated Galosh ABMs dug in around Moscow, and the U.S. fears that they may begin putting ABMs into the so-called Tallinn Line in the western U.S.S.R...
...parity with the U.S. at 31 boats. The U.S. would phase out all of its B-52s and B-58s while building enough FB-111s, the strategic fighter-bomber version of the swing-wing F-111, to match the Soviet TU-95s in numbers. The U.S. would abandon Safeguard ABMs, the Russians would dismantle or neutralize the Galosh network and the Tallinn Line. Both sides would agree not to install operational MIRVs...
...however, he had left Congress free to work its will. Nixon's manner in dealing with Congress is almost diffident, a throwback to the more passive presidency of the Eisenhower years, a direct contrast with the hot-breath methods of Lyndon Johnson. Nixon quietly lobbied dozens of Senators for Safeguard, but he never made it a party issue with Republicans. A month ago, Nixon met with five anti-ABM Republican Senators, but mentioned the issue only in passing. He understood their position, he said, and they were free to vote as conscience dictated...
...President could not have made the point more dramatically than he did during the final hours of Senate debate last week. On the Senate floor, a page slipped up to Delaware's John Williams, one of the very few Senators who had not announced a position on Safeguard. "Senator," the page stage-whispered, "the President is on the telephone." The ABM opponents concluded that Nixon was applying last-minute pressure to win a wavering vote. Not a bit of it. ABM was never mentioned in the phone conversation, though Williams eventually voted with the Administration. Williams is the ranking Republican...
...might return to Zambia, a third justice also announced his resignation. Speculation in Zambia was that the remaining four might leave the bench by the end of the year. The High Court crisis badly unsettled Zambia's white residents, who count on the white judiciary as a safeguard against the excesses of black nationalism. The value of private homes in Lusaka has dropped by one-sixth, and many white residents have made plans to leave. A white exodus would harm Zambia's economy, since Europeans play a significant role in running the country's copper mines...