Word: aiming
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Cost considerations, rather than strategic ones, are the main reason Dukakis opposes most new nuclear weapons, including mobile missiles. The argument for them is compelling: they would be far less vulnerable to a pre-emptive strike. But when his Cambridge experts delve into such things as "aim points" and "kill ratios" in discussing nuclear strategies, Dukakis has a worrisome tendency to wave away such talk as "abstract theology" about how many warheads can dance on the head of a pin. "Some of the arcane scenarios that we nuclear strategists see, he doesn't believe are reasonable," says his top foreign...
Along with an ambitious schedule of unmanned missions, the Soviet probes of the Martian moon Phobos are paving the way for a manned flight to Mars. The fact has not been lost on many Americans, who think the U. S. space program should aim at putting humans on the Red Planet. The cost is stupendous, the technology tricky, and the hazards real, but Mars still beckons. See SPACE...
...from the Gulf with its tail between its legs and leave the two parties to slug it out by themselves just because of this incident. That would only guarantee an Iranian victory while a negotiated end to the Iran-Iraq war, with victory for neither side, should be the aim of any U.S. policy in the Gulf. If nothing else, the current U.S. presence has restrained and isolated Iran, keeping that fundamentalist regime from achieving the status of a regional superpower...
...Tibetans would have the "right to decide on all matters concerning Tibet," the Dalai Lama said, while China would retain authority over foreign affairs and, for a time, defense. Beijing officials responded to the Dalai Lama's suggestion by warning foreigners to stop providing a forum for proposals that aim at "undermining China's territorial integrity...
What was going on? Understanding the impasse requires separating Tawana Brawley's misfortune into two distinct public matters. One, relating to what happened to the girl, is the Tawana Brawley case. The other, a creation of the lawyers and their sidekick preacher, is the Tawana Brawley cause. The aim of the cause is not to solve a crime but to fire up a political movement...