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Shortly after he awoke last Thursday morning in Salt Lake City, Barney Clark recognized the familiar sight and voice of his wife Una Loy, who was near by. There was also an unfamiliar noise: a soft, rhythmical clicking coming from his chest. And he realized, to his surprise, that he was still alive...
When he flew to Salt Lake City on Monday, Clark was clearly dying. Once a vigorous man and an avid golfer (handicap in his prime: six), Clark was suffering through the final stages of cardiomyopathy, a progressive weakening of the heart muscle that inevitably leads to congestive heart failure. The only permanent cure for cardiomyopathy is replacement of the heart, but at 61 he was eleven years over the usual age limit agreed upon by surgeons for a transplant...
...Soviets are on the brink of acquiring a mobile ICBM right now. They were working on one, called the SS-16, until 1977, but were persuaded during SALT II to cancel that program. The SS-16 is a three-stage big brother of the two-stage SS-20 intermediate-range ballistic missile that has upset the military balance in Europe. Late last year, the old SS-16 test site at Plesetsk, near the White Sea in northwestern Russia, was the scene of fresh activity, suggesting that the program might be started up again on short notice...
...they might decide they have no choice. In that case, some American defense experts-and certainly those who predominate in this Administration-would argue that the U.S. must protect the MX with antimissile missiles. That would mean drastically renegotiating, and probably abrogating, the 1972 SALT II treaty limiting Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) defenses. That pact, which is of indefinite duration and is currently undergoing its ten-year review in Geneva, is the only strategic nuclear arms accord still formally in force between the superpowers. Its collapse, combined with the erosion of the tacit, increasingly fragile regulation of offensive weapons that...
...first outright violation of both SALT I and SALT II, which reads: "Each party undertakes not to start construction of additional fixed ICBM launchers." The MX is regarded here as a first-strike weapon because of its very big number of warheads, their accuracy and their power. If you build something of this kind when you already have 9,000 warheads that can cover all possible targets three or four times, then you must have something in mind. The most obscene thing about this weapon is that the Administration tries to depict it as a contribution to peace, to arms...