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...moderate their position at SALT II, Schlesinger recently disclosed that U.S. nuclear doctrine has been undergoing "major change" since last spring. For 20 years American and Soviet strategy has been based on a concept of deterrence that came to be known as mutual assured destruction. Called MAD, an acronym coined by the Hudson Institute's Brennan, the doctrine holds that peace is best maintained by threatening to obliterate an entire enemy society in retaliation for a nuclear attack. Thus, the policymakers argue, nuclear war becomes unthinkable...
Critics of mutual assured destruction think the strategy's acronym is well-deserved; undoubtedly, it is an M.A.D. basis for national survival. There is something particularly ironic about Nixon and Brezhnev, all smiles and champagne, signing an ABM Agreement which prohibits either side from defending itself against a missile attack by the other. You and I and millions of other Americans are Brezhnev's hostages in the game of nuclear strategy. President Nixon gave us to the Russians in return for the right to hold a hundred million Soviet citizens as his hostages. So it goes...
Undergraduates interested in the University's Affirmative Action program have come to expect rejections by the Department of Health, Education and Welfare (HEW) of Harvard's ever-changing proposals. Ironically, a group of women who work in the University organized last year to form "Women Employed at Harvard," whose acronym (WEH) contains the letters which haunt Massachusetts Hall...
...Another acronym joined the committee beat last Spring when the Commission of Inquiry (COI) investigated and eventually rejected charges of unethical hiring practices in the Economics Department...
...chirruped the candidate, a young London stockbroker. "Indeed, yes, an admirable idea. Splendid, splendid." Freud interrupted to inquire whether his opponent really knew what MAGPAS was. "It's one of those agricultural ones, isn't it?" mumbled the Tory. No, deadpanned Freud, it actually was an acronym for Mid-Anglia General Practitioners Accident Service...