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...argued that these weapons should be reduced only if the Soviets shave their armaments in Europe as well, including medium-range nuclear missiles. These questions may be taken up in multilateral negotiations among the NATO and Warsaw Pact nations. A unilateral withdrawal of troops would obviously weaken the position of the U.S. in striking a bargain with Russia...
Missile Moratorium. Ironically, such developments have tended to weaken the Administration's already questionable case for refusing to consider the Soviet ABM-only proposal. Missouri Democrat Stuart Symington points out that Washington's stubbornness on the ABM raises suspicions about whether the U.S. ultimately wants a SALT agreement. More fundamentally, many respected disarmament experts, including Herbert F. York and Herbert Scoville Jr., argue that an initial ABM agreement would achieve an important break in the so-called "action-reaction" cycle that keeps the arms race in motion. Even if the basest motives attributed to the Soviets are correct...
...American troops from Europe; after a trip there in January, he confessed that he was "rethinking" his position. While Muskie has not changed his stand, he is looking it over in the light of his conversations with West German Chancellor Willy Brandt -who argues that a U.S. pullout would weaken his Ostpolitik. A fiipflop? Perhaps, or perhaps only a legitimate reconsideration prompted by an altered situation...
...Bureau Chief for the New York Times. Now Moynihan is back to university teaching and provocative writing. In a recent Commentary article titled "The Presidency & the Press," he decries a shift in power away from the White House to the press that he claims might, if it continues, seriously weaken effective Government. Frankel subsequently wrote a 15-page, single-spaced "Dear Pat" reply. Moynihan's five-point attack, and Frankel's rebuttal...
...garrison in April, which may draw some of the poison out of planned antiwar demonstrations this spring. He must, however, reckon with the fact that if he sets out to disarm his critics at home, the result may be to undermine the morale of the South Vietnamese and weaken Thieu before his test in South Viet Nam's presidential elections in October...