BBB:INF missles

   Quoting from The Daily News Digest, page 3 (written way back in
January, 1988), we read that the INF treaty, recently signed, has the
following "hitches" in it that the newspapers didn't tell you about:

   1. U.S. inspections will only be allowed of declared INF missile
operating bases and support facilities-- DECLARED BY THE SOVIETS TO BE
INF RELATED SITES. U.S.A. inspectors will NOT BE ENTITLED TO LOOK
ELSEWHERE.

   2. U.S. inspectors will be based outside the Soviet Union and have
to fly into Moscow after having notified the Soviets what they want to
look at.

   3. U.S. inspectors will be dependant on Soviet transportation from
Moscow and can only ask for entry to the facility after a nine-hour
delay and will everywhere have a Soviet military escort.

   4. U.S. inspectors cannot themselves take photographs and must rely
on the Soviet escorts to take their pictures for them.

   5. There will be no inspection inside any missile factory, only a
porthole monitoring outside the declared INF production plant.

   Jim Hackett, a former deputy director of the Arms Control and
Disarmament Agency, said recently he could not see the point of the
inspections except to give the illusion of verification. Where the
inspectors can go and what they can do make the whole inspection
process "pointless." (Washington Enquirer, December, 1987, front page.)