Word: salt
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...last time around, which should come as no surprise since he made contradictory promises, depending on his audience. Remember slashing the fat out of the defense budget? Remember overhauling a tax system that was a disgrace to the human race? Remember full employment? Remember Paul Warnke, ditched after negotiating SALT II to pacify the Neanderthals, and Andy Young, shot down by the Israeli lobby after talking to people of the Palestinian persuasion? Forget Jimmy Carter...
...SALT is not approved, that strategy will be jeopardized. All of the European NATO nations have large left-leaning political parties that are concerned about the effect an arms buildup might have on detente. They will accept the new missiles only if they are accompanied by SALT II, which in turn will lead to SALT III negotiations and possibly a genuine reduction of nuclear armaments...
...minuscule nuclear force; Belgium has also signaled that it would be willing to go along. The Netherlands, on the other hand, seems too divided on the issue at the moment to make a decision. As Belgian Foreign Minister Henri Simonet told TIME: "Without ratification of SALT II, it will be politically impossible for the West Germans-and even more so for us Belgians and the Dutch -to say that we are going to modernize our theater nuclear forces. I will not accept the risk. It would be to commit political suicide, and if people like me don't move...
Under mounting pressure from SALT supporters at home and abroad, the U.S. Senate seemed to edge closer to approval of the pact last week despite the setback caused by the uproar over the Soviet combat brigade in Cuba. That issue was somewhat defused when Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Frank Church, who had helped trigger the crisis, introduced a mild resolution that he had worked out in advance with the White House. He proposed that before SALT can be approved, "the President shall affirm that. . . Soviet military forces in Cuba are not engaged in a combat role and will...
Witnesses testifying against SALT during closed-door hearings of the Senate Foreign Relations and Armed Services committees last week added no fresh arguments to those that had been heard many times. Paul Nitze, former SALT negotiator and perhaps the nation's leading SALT critic, sounded his usual warning that the enormous throw-weight (the capacity of a ballistic missile to deliver a payload) allowed the Soviet Union would "tend to nail down a dangerous strategic imbalance." He urged the Senate to postpone consideration of the treaty until the U.S. has strengthened its strategic forces. But the normally hawkish Armed...