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...contortions were prompted by the fact that on May 20 a new Trident submarine is due to slip into the sea off Connecticut. Its 24 ballistic missiles would put the U.S. over the SALT II ceiling. Although Reagan once called that treaty "fatally flawed," he again decided to preserve the informal agreement by both superpowers to abide by its provisions; he ordered that two older Poseidon subs be scrapped. SALT's critics, most notably Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger, urged that the old subs be mothballed and kept ready as a protest against alleged Soviet breaches. But violating SALT II would...
Never one to decide such matters once and for all, Reagan left his options open. He indicated that the U.S. might scrap SALT II if the Soviets did not clean up their act, and he said nothing about what he will do in December, when modernized B-52s are to be fitted with new cruise missiles that would again push the U.S. past the treaty's limits...
...serves as a Trailways Bus stop (not a station; Harriet does not want the bother). A GO BIG RED sign out front announces the 7:15 a.m. to Albuquerque, the 8 a.m. to Farmington, the 8 p.m. to Albuquerque and the 11:55 p.m. to Farmington, with connections to Salt Lake City...
...with the U.S. Congress. Democrats in the House had tacked onto a critical spending bill a package of tough arms amendments that the Administration strongly opposed. Among them: a one-year ban on nuclear testing, a proviso that would forbid Reagan to violate the limits set by the unratified SALT II treaty and deep cuts in Star Wars funding. But under public pressure from the President, Congress backed down on Friday, moderating the SDI cuts and settling for a nonbinding resolution urging Reagan to comply with SALT II. The House also retracted its demand for test moratorium; in return, Reagan...
...logic of the American position eventually prevailed. The Glassboro meeting led to the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT). At a summit in Moscow in 1972, Richard Nixon and Leonid Brezhnev signed a pair of agreements embodying McNamara's recommendation to Kosygin at Glassboro: a treaty restricting antiballistic-missile defenses and an interim accord on offenses. The ABM treaty is still in force; the offensive agreement was replaced in 1979 by SALT II, which was never ratified and which expired last year but still serves as a check on the arsenals of the two sides while they try to negotiate...