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...Meet the Press last week, Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger spoke of the need for on-site inspection of weapons-production facilities. "When you get in something serious in the way of agreement," he said, "you have to have the ability to go on each other's soil, to look in factories and look at gun sites...
...Grace report is being criticized for its methodology, said Cambridge City Councilor Alice K. Wolf. "Their experiments with soil samples are questionable because they mixed all the soils together, then studied them, which may have diluted the contaminents, and changed the data," she said...
...There is a lot of concern in the community," said Wolf, "because contamination can affect the ground water and the soil itself, and once construction on a piece of property begins, it blows around and spreads to surrounding neighborhoods also...
...largely outlived their usefulness. The menace of the Soviet SS-20s failed to scare West European nations out of their alliance with the U.S.; on the contrary, they prompted NATO allies to face down hysterical opposition from domestic peace movements and allow U.S. missiles to be placed on their soil as a counterweight to the Soviet launchers. By carrying through the deployment, the U.S. made its point: it would defend its allies. Now it can sacrifice most of the missiles without loss, particularly since the original purpose of installing them was to persuade the Soviets to scrap most...
Aquino's position was bolstered in Manila, where a 48-member commission, charged by Aquino with drafting a new constitution, defeated a move by leftist delegates to ban all foreign military bases from Philippine soil. Instead, the commission agreed to leave the issue out of the constitution, making lease extensions for the U.S. military bases subject to legislative approval...