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Under the overall ceiling of 2,250, SALT II places a subceiling of 1,320 on those weapons regarded as the most destabilizing to the strategic balance (see chart following page). These mainly are the multiwarheads known as MIRVs, the acronym for multiple independently targetable re-entry vehicles. By enabling several weapons to be fired from a single launcher, MlRVing has led to the rapid expansion of atomic arsenals even though the number of launchers was frozen by SALT I. The 1,320 subceiling covers not only land-based launchers and submarine tubes, but also long-range bombers fitted...
...meet another fast-approaching deadline, Thatcher huddled with her Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir Geoffrey Howe, and his Treasury team over the new budget that is expected in mid-June. That will not only chart the government's plans for concrete economic policy, but will test the worth of Thatcher's hardest-hitting campaign promise: tax cuts. At the same time, she also tackled a range of other problem areas...
This is not entirely true as the chart on page four of his book indicates. Military spending today in constant dollars is at the same level as the years of peace since Korea (1954-1978). During this time, GNP has doubled in real terms, and non-military expenditures has tripled (even excluding huge increases in transfer payments). In other words, we spend as much on defense now as in 1954, even though we have twice as much to spend...
...pessimist. Each time Antoine (the ever boyish Jean-Pierre Leaud) picks himself up off the floor for another doomed fling, it is a victory of the spirit. The best Doinel movies, The 400 Blows and Stolen Kisses (1968), are among the most hilarious and disturbing film comedies ever to chart the vicissitudes of human passion...
Unemployment is not a new problem for France (see chart), but it has become a burning political issue. The spark was Barre's announcement last December that 21,000 workers in the government controlled steel industry would be laid off over the next two years. The news provoked fury in the two regions most affected: the north, around Lille, and Lorraine. Strikes and demonstrations have become regular occurrences, punctuated by occasional outbursts of violence. Highways have been blocked, and government officials have been locked up in their offices by angry steel workers. In the ugliest incident so far, seven...