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...saturate U.S. defenses, pushing the arms race into a volatile new phase. For the moment, the superpowers have informally agreed to practice "interim restraint" while groping for a compre- hensive arms-control agreement. Many arms-control advocates fear that Star Wars will lead to what military planners call breakout, when one side unilaterally declares itself no longer bound by past agreements and suddenly fields large numbers of new and more lethal weapons...
...either the superpowers will continue to observe SALT as they negotiate toward something better, or the combination of military pressures and political ill feeling will bring the already shaky arms-control edifice crashing down. The choice could be between a continuation of interim restraints and a massive case of breakout on both sides...
DIED. Linwood Briley, 30, convicted murderer condemned for killing a disc jockey in Richmond, and implicated in ten other vicious Richmond-area gang killings in 1979; by electrocution; in Richmond. Last May Briley masterminded the largest death-row breakout in history when, with his brother James, 28, and four other convicted murderers, he dressed as a guard and drove an official van out of the maximum-security prison in Mecklenburg, Va., and was not captured until 19 days later in Philadelphia...
ARRESTED. Stephen Bingham, 42, fugitive lawyer charged with five counts of murder and one of conspiracy for aiding an alleged 1971 prison-breakout attempt by black Radical George Jackson in which the prisoner, two trusties and three guards were killed; in San Rafael, Calif. Bingham turned himself in, and denied smuggling a gun to Jackson, who had been in San Quentin awaiting trial for murder. Bingham said he had fled because he was convinced that he could not get a fair trial...
After the beaches had been secured on Dday, the first order of business was to organize a breakout. It had been an important part of Montgomery's strategy that British forces should thrust inland some 20 miles on D-day itself, well beyond Caen, a commercial crossroads. Partly out of caution, partly out of weariness, the vanguard of the British I Corps halted for the night about halfway there, some four miles north of the city. Compared with the victory on the beachhead, the failure to reach Caen that first day seemed a minor shortcoming. Montgomery even invited Churchill...