Word: salt
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...discussion of the Reagan Administration's economic policies included a critique of the government's current health policy and a broader criticism of national health priorities. Referring to new federal programs trying to curb salt intake and encourage Americans to exercise more, Children's Defense Fund member Franna Diamond said. "For most children the principle issue is not salt in their food but food on their plate...
...this proposition is correct but the second half is not; and the Administration has practiced the second half even if it did not preach it. Without doubt, if anything like the Eureka College proposal were to be the basis of an agreement, it would be an improvement on SALT; it would lower, if not shut, the "window of vulnerability"; the world would be a safer place. But also without doubt, the U.S. position is utterly nonnegotiable...
Examples: in addition to the general ceilings unveiled at Eureka, there is now a specific requirement that the Soviets dismantle two-thirds of their cherished heavy ICBMs; an insistence that the Backfire bomber, exempted from SALT II, now count as an intercontinental weapon; and a stipulation that the Soviet Union reduce by 64% the total lifting power, or throw weight, of its missile force. This last was originally a goal for the dimly defined second phase of START. Now it has in effect been moved into the first phase...
U.S.S.R. The Soviets have long resisted such measures as a violation of their sovereignty and their own right to protect legitimate military secrets that the U.S. would like to probe under the pretext of arms control. SALT contains only measures that can be verified by "national technical means": spy satellites and remote monitoring stations outside the U.S.S.R...
...years, there have been frequent accusations, particularly from the right wing in the Senate, of flagrant Soviet violations of SALT. While the charges are numerous and persistent, none of them has stuck. The Soviets take full advantage of loopholes, and play as close as they can to the sometimes fuzzy edges of the agreements, but they have been at least as careful to abide by the letter of the nuclear arms pacts...