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DIED. ARTHUR FLETCHER, 80, adviser to G.O.P. Presidents Nixon, Ford, Reagan and George H.W. Bush, dubbed the "father of affirmative action"; in Washington. A onetime defensive end for the Baltimore Colts and Los Angeles Rams, he developed the so-called Revised Philadelphia Plan as Nixon's Assistant Labor Secretary. Based...
It was U.S. officials, back in 1972, who first convinced the Soviets that defensive systems should be restricted on the ground that they actually give impetus to the arms race by encouraging development of bigger and better offensive weapons. That resulted in the Anti-Ballistic Missile treaty, which is still...
In the excerpt that follows, McNamara describes an eerily similar debate over offensive and defensive systems that took place 19 years ago but was very much on the minds of American and Soviet officials as they prepared for the weekend meeting in Reykjavík.
The Soviet leadership under Mikhail Gorbachev seems to realize that unless it brakes and perhaps reverses its buildup, the result may indeed be a new round of the defensive-arms race, one in which the U.S. would, at least initially, have the advantage of superior technology. Gorbachev has been pressing...
Kosygin was furious. The blood rushed to his face, he pounded on the table, and he said, "Defense is moral; offense is immoral!" That was essentially the end of the discussion. The Soviet Union was by no means ready at that time to discuss an agreement banning defensive systems.