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...past year or so, Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko and other Soviet officials have hinted at flexibility about permitting some sort of "cooperative measures," perhaps including very limited on-site inspection, in future agreements. But it is virtually inconceivable that the Kremlin would grant the U.S. a carte blanche search warrant to inspect not just launch sites but perhaps storage areas and even production facilities...
Comprehensive, intrusive on-site inspection is not only nonnegotiable, it is unnecessary. The prevailing view of experts on verification is that, thanks to recent technical advances in the U.S.'s ability to monitor Soviet activities from space and from around the periphery of the U.S.S.R., those remote means need be supplemented by only the sort of limited "cooperative measures" that the U.S.S.R. now seems willing to consider...
...START, the Administration is seeking a limit on deployed ballistic missiles (850 ICBMs and SLBMs), which could be verified by spy satellites. But it is also seeking an "inventory limit" on undeployed missiles, a measure that could be verified only by comprehensive on-site inspection, and even then there would be some question about whether the U.S. could know exactly how many excess rockets or warheads the Soviets...
...recent activities at a test site near the White Sea raised fears in Washington that the Soviets may in fact be getting ready both to revive the SS-16 program and to proceed with more than one new type of missile. Some Pentagon officials have privately accused the Soviets of violating SALT II. These are the same officials who denigrated the treaty as imposing no meaningful limits on Soviet programs. What is more, given Reagan's refusal to send SALT II to the Senate for ratification, it is difficult for his Administration to be a stickler about whether...
...estate agents free trips to Paris and even luxury BMW autos as bonuses for helping to fill a new building. Other developers are giving up. Canterra Energy of Canada, an oil and gas exploration company, has dropped plans for a 30- to 35-story office tower and put the site, now a parking lot, up for sale...