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...number of questions follow from this strategic paradox. Is mutual assured destruction the best strategy we can manage? If it isn't, what strategy should we adopt? And if it is, what strategic forces does the strategy require? We should address these questions in reverse order because illogical as it might seem, that is how they are considered within the government...
...government could also cut the defense budget, transferring funds into domestic social programs, and adopt a less aggressive foreign policy. This is unlikely. High defense spending has aided large contractors, and has stabilized a recession-prone economy since 1940, when rearmament for World War II ended the Great Depression. An aggressive foreign policy requiring a large military-industrial complex serves business interests in another way. Monopolistic firms want to increase profits by expanding their markets and investments. Trade and investment abroad can be very profitable if the company is assured stability overseas. The U.S. government now has military alliances with...
...technique did spread, would it provide the sort of randomly selected group of neighbors that the traditional approach is supposed to produce? Further, if the prosecution were to adopt such expensive techniques, should they not also be made available to defendants who cannot afford them? Whatever the answers, Schulman and Christie will not soon be idle. Polling for a profile of the area around Buffalo is now well under way for the upcoming Attica trials...
Stone decided to publish an independent newsletter, forced by necessity as much as by principle to adopt the style of operation he would follow for 18 years. Because he felt, as he later wrote, that "a radical publication in the atmosphere of 1953 could only grow slowly anyway," he recruited readers from old P.M. and New York Compass subscription lists rather than attempt to mount an advertising campaign. Stone said in 1971 that he had figured only the paper's quality could sustain it, so he adopted a sober typography and straightforward tone. After eight cautious printers refused to help...
...associate of his suggested that the problems currently besetting the government are the result of often ludicrous attempts to adopt the great ideas of modern society. "We tried Keynes, we tried Churchill, we tried Roosevelt, Lombardi, Eisenhower, of course. We even tried Kennedy. And the whole thing was ridiculous. But now we're wising up. Look who's been coming into power recently. Gerald Ford. Abe Beame in New York. And of course Malcolm Wilson up there in Albany, God bless him. Now we're stealing their plans. Exalt the ideas of midgets, if you know what I mean...