Richard Burt, in The Wash-ington Review (Jan. 1978), Transaction Periodicals Consortium, Rutgers Univer- sity, New Brunswick, N.J. 08903.
Western hopes for the success of the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks with the Soviet Union have vastly declined over the past five years. Three trends in Soviet behavior have been especially disconcerting, says Burt, defense analyst for the New York Times. These trends are: the continuing momentum of Soviet weapons procurement; Moscow's em- phasis on air defense...