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...What happens next? The next major move will be a resumption of the SALT talks, which will concentrate on the possibility of wrapping into one full-scale treaty all new offensive nuclear systems, perhaps including bombers. The stickiest point may be whether various improvements in existing weapons, especially the expanded deployment of multiple warheads within missiles, should and can be controlled...
...McGovern commission promulgated rules that are sometimes as vague as they are hard to implement. The stickiest guideline calls for women, youth and minorities to be represented on delegations in rough proportion to their percentage in the population. While the intent was not to set up a quota system, that is what it amounts to. The National Women's Political Caucus, for instance, is challenging delegations that do not reflect the number of women in a state, which is almost always more than one-half the population...
...stickiest point, of course, was Taiwan. Kissinger insisted that, appearances to the contrary, the U.S. had not given anything away. The promise ultimately to withdraw all U.S. military forces from the island, he said, was a symbolic concession to get negotiations started with Peking. It would have been too much for the U.S. to ask the Chinese to accept a mere positive statement, such as a reaffirmation of the American defense treaty with Taiwan...
Ever since Phase II of President Nixon's economic program got under way three months ago, the Pay Board and Price Commission have found it especially difficult to set rules for some parts of the enormously complex U.S. economy. Last week each group tackled one of its stickiest problems. In a surprise move, the Price Commission suspended all pending rate increases by privately owned utility firms. Its move temporarily froze prospective boosts that would have added billions of dollars annually to consumers' telephone, electric and gas bills. The Pay Board issued new rules governing merit raises, the form...
...bargaining over the distance the Israelis would be willing to pull back. Government officials in Jerusalem have hinted at eight to ten miles from the canal. Egypt has demanded that Israeli forces go farther-a full 115 miles, but that may well be merely an opening bid. Probably the stickiest issue is Sadat's insistence that any interim agreement on the canal be linked to a commitment by Israel to withdraw eventually from all occupied territories. Jerusalem is equally determined that any partial withdrawal be entirely separate from negotiations for an overall peace agreement...