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xne cusarment conterences came to nothing and SALT II was not ratified by the Senate,of the U.S. Meanwhile there had been no disarmement, but a further build-up of arms by both Russia and the United States and among their satellite countries.
Today, as our triple threat disarmament team - one dealing with heavy missiles and bombs, one w ith intermediate powers and the other with minor or incidental arms - goes off to confer, it goes strengthened, supposedly, by the fact that the Unites States’ defense budget has reached new highs.
The MX missile has been approved. The Star Wars project is on the drawing board, if not beyond. Agreements to deploy cruise missiles have been reached with Belgium and at least tentatively with West Germany. A Presidential task force has recommended the production of instruments of chemical warfare. American arms are being supplied to Afghanistan and to Central America, and the President and the Prime Minister of Canada have promised the rebuilding and reactivation of the Dew' Line early warning system across Alaska and Northern Canada, (a system first installed in the 1950s to warn the approach of Russian bombers, and now intended to warn of the coming of Russian cruise missiles.)
The U.S. military is financing a project to invent a mechanical horse for use on rough terrain, quite possibly„to counter the Russian cavalry, which is estimated to have some (>,000 horses. The President of Algeria has just visited the U.S. asking for arms. The
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