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More significantly, Congress showed an increased willingness to use the defense budget to force the President's hand on arms control. By a 77-22 vote, the Senate urged Reagan to submit for ratification the 1974 Threshold Test Ban Treaty and the 1976 Peaceful Nuclear Explosions Treaty, which would limit underground nuclear detonations to 150 kilotons or less. The Senate also called on Reagan to seek a comprehensive ban on all nuclear tests and a summit conference on nuclear weapons "without preconditions or assurances of success." The House had already voted to withhold funds for the MX missile until...
...same time, however, Jackson gave the Democrats credit for "earnestly grappling" with his grievances against party rules, including the "threshold requirement" that a candidate must win 20% of the primary vote in a district to win any delegates. This week the rules committee of the convention will take up the issue. "If we do not get an acceptable remedy from one of these commissions," said Jackson, trying to sound reasonable, "then we'll simply let the matter go before the convention floor and let the nation observe it and the convention decide it." His campaign chairman, Richard Hatcher, told...
...much propaganda if the nuclear threat facing both superpowers were not all too real. After a decade and a half of tortuous talks, the process of arms control is at the moment essentially dead (see following story). Meanwhile, the U.S. and the Soviet Union stand on the threshold of a revolution in nuclear technology that will vastly complicate future negotiations. The U.S. moved a step closer to Star Wars weaponry last week when it successfully tested a new defensive missile...
These types of mines have a magnetometer that detects disturbances when heavy steel ships pass overhead. If the disturbance causes the magnetometer to reach a certain threshold, a jolt of electricity from a battery sets off the plastic explosive. After about six weeks, experts believe, the battery loses power and the mines become inactive. Because the mines were placed in deep channels, the explosions are unlikely to cause serious damage to ships. But those familiar with the operation say that "they will crack a seam in the ship, shake things up and knock people around." That is enough...
...some states, the preference and delegate votes are completely separate. In others, delegates are apportioned according to each candidate's share of the vote, not statewide but within each congressional district. "Threshold" and "bonus" rules may further complicate the apportionment...