ABSTRACT
William Beecher of The Boston Globe chaired the round table discussion. He posed the following question to the panelists: The President of the United States is on the telephone. “Regardless of your politics,” he says, “what is your vision of where we ought to go in strategic arms control over the next five years, and what specific steps would you urge me to take over the next several months to start down that track?” Assumed under that question are such issues as whether crisis stability should become the over-arching objective of SALT; whether the SALT II Treaty should be left in limbo for the next four years while the two sides seek to leap-frog to SALT II-A; and whether TNF should be used as the bridge to SALT II-A as a mutually face-saving way to resume the strategic dialogue.
