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Though they were upset by the U.S. decision to build Safeguard, the Soviets have carefully refrained from any direct criticism of President Nixon. Instead, they still hope that they can prevail upon him to meet within the next few months to discuss some sort of limitation on the ABMs. A much more complicated issue is the question of the Soviet attitude toward West Germany, which is the only West European state that has the economic muscle and geographic location to exert a direct influence on the East Bloc...
...Seymour outlined two primary goals when he became president of J. Walter Thompson Co. five years ago. A onetime radio announcer, Seymour emphasized that he intended to safeguard those factors-particularly talent-that have helped 105-year-old J.W.T. become the world's biggest advertising agency. He would also strive, he said, to acquire new "tools" and people to enable it to grow still further...
Rogers also had news, but it was of a happier sort: low-level preparatory arms talks between the U.S. and Russia, he announced, will begin "fairly soon," probably within two or three months. More important, when the two nations start bargaining in earnest-which should be well before Safeguard is deployed in 1973-the system could be scuttled entirely. "If the Soviet Union, when we start these talks, indicates that it wants to get out of the defensive-missile business, we can get out of it very quickly," Rogers said. That reasoning only added evidence to suggest that Nixon...
Packard's Wand. In fact, any confidence Fulbright might have had in the Safeguard system had already been undermined by Deputy Secretary of Defense David Packard, who turned up to testify armed with a raft of charts and diagrams showing Russia's growing threat as an 1CBM power. When he had finished explaining them with the help of a pointer, Senator Albert Gore asked to borrow his "wand" and produced some homemade charts of his own. The resulting debate on "overkill"-nuclear capability beyond that needed to assure the total destruction of an enemy-turned primarily...
...rather awkwardly that he looked forward to "the information and wisdom that you will want to impart upon me in your talks." Trudeau had every reason to be wary. His government is upset over U.S. attitudes on oil imports and wheat prices. It is apprehensive about Nixon's Safeguard ABM system. It is engaged in an intensive review of foreign and defense policy. Canada has already decided to establish full diplomatic relations with Red China, and very soon will decide whether to continue its membership in NATO...