Word: salt
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...bilateral freeze on nuclear weapons, a treaty banning the testing of new ones, an agreement on avoiding an arms race in space. Opposes build-down idea of removing two warheads for each new one deployed, because he feels it is at odds with the freeze. Advocates Senate ratification of SALT II. Wants to tighten controls on the export of nuclear materials. Urges treaties banning chemical and biological weapons if compliance can be verified...
...modified bilateral freeze on nuclear weapons, allowing some modernization. Wants to reduce those weapons that are most destabilizing, mainly multiple-warhead, land-based ICBMs. Would rely more on submarines and bombers and would develop a single-warhead mobile ICBM. Supports a modified build-down concept. Would seek ratification of SALT II. Urges the tightening of nonproliferation controls...
FICTION: The Anatomy Lesson, Philip Roth ∙ A House in the Country, José Donoso ∙ Leaving the Land, Douglas Unger ∙ Life and Times of Michael K, J. M. Coetzee ∙ Pitch Dark, Renata Adler ∙ The Salt Line, Elizabeth Spencer
First round NCAA basketball tournament action begins tonight. In the East Regional, Temple (25-4) faces St. John's (18-11) and Auburn (20-10) takes on Richmond (20-9) at Charlotte, N.C. At Salt Lake City in the West Regional, Princeton (17-9) challenges the University of Nevada at Las Vegas (27-5) and Louisiana State (18-10) squares off against Dayton (18-10). In the Mideast Regional at Birmingham, Ala., Oregon State (22-6) meets West Virginia (19-11) and the University of Alabama at Birmingham (23-10) battles Brigham Young (19-10). The Midwest Regional pits Fresno...
...weaponry. While advocating a defense increase of about four percent--the same as Mondale--Hart has argued his case in terms of what the money is spent on. Hart led a 1983 filibuster against the MX missile, opposed the B1 bomber and the M-1 tank, fought for the SALT II treaty, and introduced legislation calling for a worldwide freeze on the manufacture of plutonium that could be used by terrorists to build nuclear weapons. Hart, in 1982, opposed the construction of two large aircraft carriers, arguing instead for more usable and less vulnerable smaller craft. In foreign policy, Hart...