Jerald F. terHorst has just won the Conscience in Media Medal, awarded by the Society of Magazine Writers, for resigning as White House Press Secretary over the issue of Nixon’s pardon. The Ascent of terHorst has only begun.
One of the Nixon Administration’s less helpful legacies is the test ban treaty Nixon and Kissinger signed in Moscow last July, under the pressure of not wanting to take the bloom off detente. The Ford Administration, having decided that the treaty would not pass the Senate, is about to renegotiate it. As it now stands, tests acknowledged to be tests, of nuclear weapons are limited in size, whereas tests claimed to be for peaceful uses are not. The danger is that we would probably abide by such a treaty, the Soviets probably would not, and the deception would be very hard to demonstrate conclusively. Meanwhile, Leonid Brezhnev, in East Germany for the 25th anniversary of its Communist state, called for a total ban on tests of nuclear weapons, and the removal of all nuclear-armed submarines from the Mediterranean—i.e., the removal of American nuclear-armed naval aircraft and submarines from within striking range of key areas of the Soviet Union.
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