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...would be to make . the current Soviet offensive in Afghanistan as difficult as possible?in short, help it become the Kremlin's version of America's Viet Nam. While the problems that would be faced by Soviet troops fighting in a country just across the Soviet border could hardly equal those confronting G.I.s embattled 10,000 miles from the U.S. (to say nothing of the Soviet regime's ability to crush all domestic antiwar criticism), the Afghanistan adventure could become more than Moscow bargained for. One thing the U.S. could do, suggests Dimitri Simes, a Russian emigre...
...most important accomplishment of the SALT II treaty is that it would-if it were in force-assure a measure of predictability, and hence stability, in the relationship between the strategic arsenals of the two sides. The treaty establishes a. hierarchy of equal ceilings on Soviet and American launchers for intercontinental nuclear weapons. In that respect, it is an improvement on the 1972 SALT I freeze, which left the Soviets with a numerical advantage of about 40% in missile launchers. Yet even with that numerical advantage, the Soviets have already bumped their heads against the SALT I ceiling: they have...
...Vladivostok accord, which was negotiated by President Ford and Kissinger and is embodied in the final SALT II treaty, sets equal ceilings of 2,400 for total strategic nuclear launchers and 1,320 for launchers with multiple warheads (MIRVs). Those ceilings are too high for the liking of many arms-control enthusiasts and U.S. defense planners as well, for they permit the Soviets to continue their 17-year-old missile buildup, which in turn is forcing the U.S. into expensive countermeasures. But the Carter Administration succeeded in negotiating additional provisions that would apply the brakes to the Soviet juggernaut...
California is by no means the vinous El Dorado pictured by its publicists or by many writers who would not know a Chardonnay grape from a supermarket Thompson Seedless. Americans using the Pinot Noir grape of Burgundy have yet to make a red wine that is remotely equal to its ancestor in body and authority. Many California wines, particularly the often overpraised Zinfandels, lack finesse and balance. Some, like Heitz Martha...
...Washington this week came a resounding cry: "Women have struggled too long for equal opportunity to give in to the NCAA, the bully of the amateur athletic world, without a whale of a fight...