Word: staging
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Negotiations are 95% complete for a second-stage Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty. So declared Paul Warnke, the outgoing director of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, after he and Secretary of State Cyrus Vance finished two days of talks in the Kremlin last week. But two years ago, the then Secretary of State, Henry Kissinger, similarly proclaimed that SALT II was 95% complete. Last year the Carter Administration spoke glowingly of wrapping up negotiations by Christmas of 1977. Now there is talk of a treaty by this Christmas. Observes Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko: "Everyone is going around...
Although hollow predictions seem to characterize the six-year search for a second-stage arms accord, Warnke's optimistic assessment may be accurate. The bulk of SALT II does appear ready for signing. The draft of the resolved portions runs more than 50 pages. Both sides have settled the central issue, agreeing to limit their strategic arsenals to 2,250 weapons systems at least until 1985. These ceilings will require the Soviets to scrap about 300 aging rockets and bombers. The U.S. will not have to make any cuts, since its strategic weapons now total...
...trial, far more attention was given to the constitutional confrontation that arose when the defense demanded the notes of New York Times Reporter Myron Farber, who had first dubbed Jascalevich Dr. X in articles that led to the multiple-murder indictment. Last week Jascalevich was back at center stage when the jury, after deliberating for less than three hours, acquitted him of all charges. His supporters in the courtroom burst into applause. Said the doctor: "Justice has been done...
...Washington, the Nobel Peace Prize Committee last week announced in Oslo that this year's award would go jointly to Egypt's Anwar Sadat and Israel's Menachem Begin. Few Western observers would quarrel with the selection of Sadat, whose courageous mission to Jerusalem last November had set the stage for the tumultuous peace drive that followed. But in its attempt at even-handedness in naming Begin to share the honor and the $173,700 in prize money, the committee (see box) made a questionable choice in timing if not in judgment...
...Sadat has been dangerously isolated from the Arab world. He was relieved last week when the Sudan became the first Arab state to endorse Camp David, and he also took satisfaction from an editorial in a Saudi Arabian paper, the daily Okaz, declaring that Camp David represented "an important stage in Arab history and should be recognized as an established fact...