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Experts in Reagan's own State Department are concerned that long before the U.S. reaches the point of being able to demonstrate such a system, it would have violated or abrogated a number of existing arms-control treaties and provoked the Soviets into an all-out campaign to increase their own weaponry, offensive and defensive alike. Yet the Star Wars enthusiasts in the Administration, who are concentrated at the Pentagon and among the powerful group of military men on the National Security Council staff, are already maneuvering to bring about a presidential commitment within weeks after the election...
...farmhouse 30 miles from Palermo. Some Italian law enforcement officials interpreted the murder as a warning to Buscetta and to anyone else who might be tempted to talk. There was anxious speculation that the upheaval caused by Buscetta's revelations could produce a new round of all-out bloodletting...
What at first seemed like a sure three-game sweep had turned into an all-out battle...
...all-out, major league play," Harvard defensive coordinator George Clemens said of the stop...
Still, even two border incursions do not make for all-out war. A little perspective is in order. One gets the impression from the swirl of controversy, from the charges and countercharges in the air, that one side is about to banish the Constitution, the other God. Hardly. The battles of the past few weeks amount not to war but to border rectification...