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...Semyonov in Geneva. Semyonov complained that the U.S. was trying to use SALT for purposes of espionage rather than verification. Just before Vance was due to meet with Gromyko in Moscow last October, Warnke and Earle raised the issue with Semyonov again: a common understanding accompanying the treaty must spell out that some telemetry is relevant to some provisions of SALT, and therefore encryption of that telemetry would constitute a "deliberate concealment measure." Without such a provision, said Warnke sternly, the treaty could not be properly verified; moreover it could not ?indeed, should not?be ratified. "I'm prepared...
...similar test in December would be a violation of SALT II. The Carter letter elicited a quarrelsome Brezhnev response, also in writing: while not categorically rejecting the U.S. position, the Soviets objected to the citation of specific tests as examples of impermissible encryption; they challenged the U.S. to spell out exactly what it was about those tests that impeded verification. That was something the American side did not want to do because the more it told the Kremlin about what it knew of those tests and what it needed for verification, the more it revealed about the workings of American...
...talking cars comes off the Dallas drawing boards of Texas Instruments Inc., which has come up with a computer chip, costing less than $5 to manufacture, that synthesizes the human voice. So far, TI has used the chip only in its $60 talking learning aid for children, called Speak & Spell; the company has been marketing it with considerable success since last September. The red and yellow plastic device asks wide-eyed kids and fascinated adults to spell words as easy as was or as difficult as quotient by punching out the letters on a keyboard. It then responds, "That...
...secretive about the way Speak & Spell works that competitors are buying the toy just to smash it and recover the chip. The Texas company has managed to put a fairly large vocabulary onto a computer chip at low cost. With that, synthetic speech becomes possible in many consumer products. Washing machines could gurgle when the suds get too high, and the refrigerator could snarl at the midnight raider. But what, the best brains in Detroit are wondering, will happen when a driver's eight-track quadraphonic recording of Disco Queen Donna Summer is interrupted by a disembodied voice warning...
Friday--They spell "Ithaka" with a "c" now, and if you're wondering where the "k" went, look at the stats of Cornell pitcher John Nurthen, who struck out 11 Harvard batters in Friday's 3-1 loss. Nurthen, the senior righthander who has now fanned 77 in only 69 innings, yielded only seven Harvard hits on the day, while mixing fastball, curveball, and dirtball (Nurthen mysteriously refused to pitch with a clean ball) for his complete game victory...