Word: salt
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When news of the tentative decision leaked last month, it seemed a great victory for the State Department and arms-control advocates. To stay within the missile limits set by the unratified SALT II accord, President Reagan had agreed to dismantle two aging Poseidon submarines when a new Trident sub is launched this month. The complex compromise, reached at a secret National Security Council meeting, seemed to have something for each of the warring factions in the Administration: though it preserved SALT II for the moment, it also accelerated work on the small mobile missile known as the Midgetman...
People in other departments and other walks of life have wasted little time rubbing salt in my wounds--from a freshman roommate who snickered "English, eh? Goin' for the big bucks, ain'tcha?" to my financee parents, who equated my joining the English Department to joining a motorcycle gang as far as their daughter's welfare was concerned...
...hand, U.S. officials regard the present diplomatic process as fragile. Apart from the question of whether progress on vital issues is really possible, there is the fact that the U.S. must decide shortly on whether to continue to abide by the restraints on nuclear arsenals imposed by the unratified SALT II agreement. A new Trident submarine, equipped with 24 ballistic missiles, is scheduled to begin sea trials on May 20. The vessel's entry into the U.S. arsenal would mean going over the ceilings set by the treaty. As Reagan reiterated in his midweek press conference, no decision...
...State Department, for its part, is convinced that it would be "politically disastrous" for the U.S. to violate the numerical limits set by SALT II. To do so, Shultz argues, would outrage America's friends, alienate domestic public opinion, undermine current arms negotiations and possibly even derail the summit. He hopes to enlist the support of U.S. allies at the Tokyo economic summit in May, before President Reagan reaches a final decision...
...front is five to six miles wide. Iranian troops are dug in around a massive evaporator system used for making salt. It is a complex network of ponds, retainer walls and narrow approaches that is well suited for Iranian defenses. Iraq's Soviet-made tanks are unable to advance along the narrow roads and soft levees leading to the town. When tanks do get into position, they are badly exposed and easily crippled by fire from Iranian rocket- propelled grenades. Should the Iraqis succeed in driving the Iranians out of the salt evaporator, notes a Western military observer, "they will...