Word: salt
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...Security Adviser to Presidents Kennedy and Johnson, Bundy was an early, forceful advocate for U.S. military assistance to South Viet Nam. Now he is closer to the antiwar activists who fought him. Along with McNamara, former Ambassador to Moscow George F. Kennan and Gerard Smith, chief negotiator of the SALT I treaty, Bundy recently urged the U.S. and NATO to adopt a no-first-strike policy toward nuclear weapons, and has said that President Reagan's Star Wars proposal does not "respect reality." Head of the Ford Foundation from 1966 to 1979, Bundy, 66, is now a history professor...
Along the way, Spock became the first of the anti-expert experts. His own best seller on child care cautions mothers to take even his tips with several grains of salt. In all editions, the first paragraph of the book begins, "You know more than you think you do," and the next paragraph says, "Don't be overawed by what the experts say. Don't be afraid to trust your own common sense." A friendly and homey prose style, at once humble and authoritative, has convinced millions of mothers that he is an author who can be trusted...
...entry, Washington the MX. The Soviets, who now have six types of missiles in their ICBM arsenal, insist that the SS-X-25 is merely an updated version of the SS-13 and thus does not qualify as a new weapon or as a SALT violation. The Reagan Administration has disputed that point several times. In any case, said Secretary of State Shultz last week, the approaching mobility of Soviet missiles could pose new problems for Washington in keeping track of weapons aimed against the U.S. In the end, the outcome in the Senate depended on a small group...
...room rated at least a footnote in history: in this modest, comfortably decorated chamber at the Soviet mission in Geneva, much of the negotiating had taken place before the 1979 SALT II agreement. It seemed a fitting place to step into after the warm if formal greeting offered last week by Victor Karpov, the chief Soviet negotiator for a new round of arms talks, to his U.S. counterparts, Max Kampelman, John Tower and Maynard Glitman. Before Karpov waved the Americans in, he said to Kampelman, the leader: "I hope that our meeting will not be the last...
...Added Kampelman: "They're working people. We have to sympathize." Still, it was Karpov who got off the deftest line, one that went to the heart of the basic political question underlying all the ceremony. Asked by a reporter whether he felt affected by working in the room where SALT II was hammered out, Karpov replied that if both sides are cooperating to reach an agreement, they could do their work even "on the kitchen floor...