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...Missile Moratorium. Ironically, such developments have tended to weaken the Administration's already questionable case for refusing to consider the Soviet ABM-only proposal. Missouri Democrat Stuart Symington points out that Washington's stubbornness on the ABM raises suspicions about whether the U.S. ultimately wants a SALT agreement. More fundamentally, many respected disarmament experts, including Herbert F. York and Herbert Scoville Jr., argue that an initial ABM agreement would achieve an important break in the so-called "action-reaction" cycle that keeps the arms race in motion. Even if the basest motives attributed to the Soviets are correct...
...with the understanding that it would not be sent to the Senate for ratification until the Soviets agreed to a treaty on other weapons. Then again, some Administration SALT strategists favor something along the lines of Washington Democrat Henry M. Jackson's proposal for an experimental one-year moratorium on deployment of Minuteman 3s in the U.S., of new ICBMs of any kind in Russia and of ABMs around population centers in both countries. During the moratorium, the two sides would work toward a formal SALT treaty...
...fate in the U.S. Since Monge died, 650 other condemned prisoners have accumulated on the nation's death rows, awaiting word from the Supreme Court on the constitutionality of the death penalty. Last week the court wiped away two questions that had been key elements in sustaining the moratorium...
Boston groups will stage antiwar demonstrations today and tomorrow. Today's will be a Moratorium-style rally on the Boston Common. Tomorrow morning, activists will attempt to close down the John F. Kennedy Federal Building in Government Center by nonviolent civil disobedience...
...resumption ended a 30-day moratorium on the boycott during which the Farmworkers had begun talks with several large California growers...