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...SALT confronts a journalist with two challenges," says Talbott: "Understanding the complex, secrecy-shrouded subject and writing about it so that readers can grasp it." Talbott undertook the first challenge armed with the discipline of a Rhodes scholar at Oxford (B. Litt., 1971). "I put myself through a crash course in the exotic hardware, the numerology offeree levels and the foreign language of arms-control acronyms," he explains. As a student of Russian literature, the translator and editor of two volumes of Nikita Khrushchev's memoirs (1970 and 1974) and an observer of statecraft, Talbott knew three essential SALT...
Joseph J. Sisco, 59, is a career diplomat who undertook many peace-keeping missions to the Middle East, eventually becoming No. 3 in the State Department during the Nixon and Ford Administrations. He is now president of American University...
...Carter undertook to answer the critics and skeptics in a major speech at Georgia Tech, where he had once been a student. Originally he had planned a lengthy defense of the pending SALT agreement, but he and his advisers realized that he now had to take a broader approach...
...children. In their history, Americans have passed through periods of appalling cruelty and stupidity toward children. To the early Calvinists, a child was a lump of pure depravity. In Massachusetts Bay Colony, it was against the law for children to play. Things were not much better after behavioral psychologists undertook to dictate the treatment of children. Dr. J.B. Watson, an earlier generation's Dr. Spock, insisted in 1928 that children must be treated with cold scientific detachment. "Never hug and kiss them," he advised...
Last week, near snow-swept Mud Lake, Idaho, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission undertook to allay fears. It staged a nuclear accident in miniature, deliberately sabotaging a small test reactor's primary cooling system to see if the back-up system would avert a blowdown...