Word: salt
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Baker, who officially announced his quest for the Republican nomination in Washington Thursday, told a crowd of about 200 at Quincy Market that "politics has become so mean, so nasty that soon, nobody worth his salt is going...
Baker reaffirmed his protest of the SALT II treaty in his announcement. "Approval of this treaty with its acceptance of Soviet strategic superiority could guarantee to the Soviet Union the margin of error that used to be ours," he said yesterday...
Baker wanted to start big so he waited for the "debate of the century" over the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT). Early last summer he threatened strong opposition to the treaty unless President Carter and the Russians agreed to major changes. Unfortunately for Baker, the public does not seem to care as much about SALT II as Baker and his Democratic counterpart, Senate majority leader Robert C. Byrd (W. Va.). Baker's amendments, which had the potential to kill SALT II, met defeat by a one-vote margin in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee last Wednesday, and Capitol Hill colleagues...
...contrast to his opposition to SALT II, Baker stunned the congressional Republicans last year by supporting ratification of the Panama Canal treaty, which gave the Panamanian government control of the waterway. Despite rumors he had unforgivably deserted the party line to save a Democratic president, Baker easily won re-election to a third term in the Senate...
BAKER HOPES TO BUILD that support with his move to amend SALT II and has some Congressional leaders reconsidering a decision to open the SALT debate to the television cameras. The extra-exposure could put Baker right back or the centerstage of 1974, with millions of Americans watching--which is just where he wants...