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...have more than 6,000, compared with some 2,000 for the U.S. Those are the ''silo busters,'' the instruments of a hypothetical first-strike threat against America's 1,000 ICBM launchers. This Soviet preponderance in ICBM warheads contributed to Reagan's disenchantment with Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT) as well as to his enthusiasm for SDI. For years he had questioned the efficacy and morality of MAD. Was not there a better way to keep the nuclear peace than through a suicide pact? Wasn't there some way to mount a defense that really would defend against...
...arms-control agreements of the past lest they provide the basis for new agreements in the future. Last month this faction won a major victory against Shultz and the State Department by persuading Reagan to declare his intent to end American compliance with the offensive limits of SALT II at the end of the year. The next battle could be more important and more intense. Administration hawks are laying the ground for a breakout from the defensive limits of the ABM treaty. The terms call for the signatories to review its viability every five years...
...Among the events that have raised the stakes for SDI is a barrage of assaults on the arms-control environment from which it emerged. Reagan has announced plans to jettison the limits on offensive weapons in the unratified 1979 SALT II agreement unless the Soviets are more forthcoming on new arms-control initiatives, and last week he awkwardly tried to explain what this posture really means. His Administration is split on how to apply the 1972 ABM treaty, which limits development of antimissile systems, but Pentagon hawks have gone a long way toward undermining any restraints the treaty might place...
...attempts to sound accommodating, Reagan further muddled the issue of whether he had in fact decided to abandon the SALT II treaty. The Administration is in the process of dismantling one missile-carrying submarine, thus keeping the U.S. within the pact's ceilings. But it asserted that it would breach the limits late this year, as more B-52 bombers were equipped with cruise missiles. It is possible, however, said Spokesman Larry Speakes, that another submarine might be decommissioned when the cruise missiles put the U.S. over the SALT II limit. Exactly what are you going to do on SALT...
...Brower, a private investigator who works for a Salt Lake City law firm representing several former FLDS clients who are suing Jeffs and the trust that holds much of the community's property, said most of the members of Jeffs' leadership team - the most likely pool for a new FLDS Prophet - "are in the wind," transient and hard to find. But William E. Jessop, the man on the receiving end of Jeffs's 2007 jailhouse conversation, lives openly in Hildale, Utah, an FLDS community. He is described as "respected as bishop in the FLDS religion" in dossiers compiled around Jeff...