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...would allow the White House and the Congress to "assess Soviet actions and intentions, and devote our primary attention to the legislative and other measures required to respond to this crisis." Carter emphasized that SALT's eventual approval by the Senate would be "in the national security interest." The request for a delay was greeted with relief by SALT supporters, a number of whom had feared that there was no chance the arms pact could now win the two-thirds vote required for passage...
...long as Pakistan balked at renouncing nuclear weapons. The Administration began moving rapidly last week to improve relations with Pakistan, even before Carter announced his determination to assist the country. The White House congressional liaison staff met with leaders on Capitol Hill to work out a possible budget request to provide military aid to Pakistan. It was clear that such aid would no longer be blocked by the issue of Pakistan's atomic potential. Said an Administration official: "Our concern about [nuclear] nonproliferation is being overwhelmed by the threat to the future of Pakistan and the subcontinent...
...next five years. More immediately, the U.S. could improve its military posture in the Middle East by obtaining bases there. Egypt and Israel have already offered use of their faculties; in the Indian Ocean region, Oman, Somalia and Kenya have indicated that they would be receptive to a U.S. request for bases. Currently, the only U.S. military installation in the Indian Ocean is an airstrip on the tiny island of Diego Garcia, about 1,000 miles off India's coast...
...dozen years, the momentum of the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks and the sheer importance of what was being negotiated helped SALT to survive the sometimes quixotic workings of American democracy and the sometimes brutal vicissitudes of Soviet behavior. President Carter's decision to request a postponement of the Senate debate on ratification of the SALT treaty could spell the end not just of SALT II but of the prospects for SALT III, the SALT process as a whole, and the array of lesser arms-control negotiations in which progress has often depended on the SALT bellwether. Among them: talks...
...Robert Mugabe's ZANLA forces; the others were ZIPRA troops loyal to Joshua Nkomo. Considering the great physical difficulties faced by the guerrillas, some of whom marched more than a hundred miles over difficult terrain, it was an extraordinarily impressive turnout. Governor Soames, while refusing a Patriotic Front request to extend the assembly deadline, indicated that he would take no immediate action against late-arriving guerrillas. Indeed, he could hardly condemn only the Front's few stragglers, since it was the Rhodesian security forces who seemed to be dragging their feet in returning to their bases, and some...