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...undersell the positive benefits of SALT II. Despite inevitable drawbacks, SALT II will be a definite asset to the U.S. position. It will stem the most blatantly threatening and currently costly aspects of the nuclear arms race. As Carter pointed out in his speech last week, the treaty will limit both sides to 2250 missile launchers and 1320 missiles with multiple warheads (MIRVs). It will require that the Soviets cut back their missiles and launchers by 250, ten per cent of their total force, while the U.S. will be able to increase its own stock of missiles and bombers with...
Atrocities can be avoided if steps are taken early enough. There are many who doubt that massacres really threaten the Jewish Iranian population. I don't think I have exxagerated in view of the terrible experience of the Jewish populations in Moslem countries in the past few years. Let it also be said that Iran itself has historically experienced pogroms--anti-Jewish race riots. The way in which the Israeli consulate in Iran was ransacked recently adds to my concern. When all this evidence is added up, what other conclusion can one come to? Are we willing to wait? What...
...special arrangements, these industrial consumers receive electricity from TVA at discount rates, while small consumers pay full rates. This means that the small consumers effectively subsidize the energy consumption the industrial giants, which in the case of Union Carbide, for example, goes toward operating uranium enrichment plants that seriously threaten local environments...
...presidential attention to detail. He has also been willing to try bold new approaches, like the Camp David summit. Yet the more he studies, the more it becomes apparent not only that each problem is difficult, but that each is connected to other problems. Remedies for the energy question threaten to increase inflation. Remedies for inflation may raise the level of unemployment. Push down on one issue, and out squirt half a dozen others...
Both sides believe that opponents threaten their basic rights...