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...ICBM's length and diameter and thus contribute significantly to SALT II verification. Reason: under the expected terms of the accord, if such dimensions are increased or decreased by more than 5%, the weapon would have to be designated as a "new type" of missile and be subject to a sharp limitation on deployment. (Some critics of SALT caution that the margin of error in measurement still makes it impossible to determine whether Soviet missiles exceed the size limits.) Missile takeoffs are monitored by ground bases to the west. With the closing of the two sites in Iran...
Whether black majority rule will really have been achieved when that government takes office in June is a subject of heated debate. Muzorewa and Smith say yes. The black nationalists outside Rhodesia say no, and fight on. Certainly there is no doubt that under the new constitution the 212,000 whites will still have a special status. Though they account for only 4% of the population, they are guaranteed 28 of the 100 seats in the parliament, and for ten years will have control, through a complex veto provision, over such vital areas as the judiciary, the civil service...
...Robert Trout holding a microphone that bore unfamiliar initials. F.D.R. stopped and asked: "CBS? What's that?" Some 40 years later, President Richard Nixon believed that CBS and other news organizations were trying to drive him out of office. Clearly, a lot happened in between. What, precisely, forms the subject of The Powers That Be, a narrative that is long enough to be two books and in fact is: a serious history of recent changes in U.S. news reporting and a gossipy, mostly engrossing chronicle of office politics and high-level power struggles...
...agency's legal and inspection staff has more than tripled in the past years. As Schlesinger puts it, "A CIA officer can hardly do his job if he has lawyers following him around reading the U.S. Code to him." Especially nettlesome is the fact that the CIA is subject to the Freedom of Information Act, the only intelligence service in the world that has to produce information for outsiders on demand. Dozens of CIA officials are tied up responding to inquiries, many of them frivolous to say the least, e.g., information on UFOs. There is no way of telling...
...subject of President Carter Weicker remarked, "His rhetoric is admirable, his heart is in the right place, but he doesn't know...