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...handmaiden to the nation's lawyers, a shrewd middleman in America's judicial process. His assignments, almost always from attorneys, involve collecting evidence that is presentable and persuasive in court. The highest praise for the shamus comes from a lawyer feared in settlement circles as a "matrimonial bomber": "Irwin Blye puts things together. He knows the law." He also knows civil liberties and how to abuse them. To him information is power. His weapons are things like UCC-11 forms (for $3 you get everything on anyone who has ever applied for a loan) and Cole...
...tiny reduction in the Ford Administration's record-breaking defense budget proposal, permitting a $10 billion increase over the $110 billion budget for the current fiscal year. Moreover, most of this modest reduction is achieved by slowing down procurement of such major weapons systems as the B-1 bomber and the MX ballistic missile, and therefore does not represent a real curtailment in the long-term spending program. In fact, by stretching out the purchasing of these weapons rather than terminating them entirely, the Carter administration may in the long run increase their total cost, once the anticipated effects...
...Ford carried the attack to the Democrats, attempting to paint Carter as dangerously "soft" on defense. Following the Ford defeat, the crusade for higher defense spending intensified in an effort to force favorable decisions from the new President on a multitude of major weapons projects--including the B-1 bomber, the strategic cruise missile and the M-X, a new, land-mobile ICBM...
...statements." Legislation passed two years ago requires an assessment of a weapon's impact on arms control before it is tested. But the Ford Administration made a mockery of the entire process. The statements' discussion of the impact of the cruise missile ran just two sentences; the B-1 bomber was given a short paragraph explaining that the number of bombers planned for procurement fit neatly under the ceilings negotiated at Vladivostok. The ACDA, under Warnke's predecessor Fred Ikle, politely acquiesced in the Pentagon's legalistic abortion of Congressional intent...
...would be willing to complete a quick SALT II agreement with the Soviet Union, basically confirming the limitation on nuclear weapons agreed upon by President Ford and Leonid Brezhnev in 1974, without resolving the continuing controversy over whether the Soviet Union's Backfire bomber and the U.S. cruise missile should come under the set ceilings. Carter would allow that question to be decided later. This idea had also been proposed by Ford and rejected by the Russians, who, however, may be more receptive...