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...could expand Sentinel massively to protect major cities against all-out attack, which he dismissed because such protection is virtually impossible anyway...
...Richard Nixon decide to deploy the Johnson-planned ABM system, though in "substantially modified" form? The decision was an astute attempt at compromise between all-out advocates and all-out opponents of the system. But it would be wrong to ascribe to the President only political or public relations motives. Last June, during his campaign, he praised the proposed Sentinel system as essential to the credibility of the U.S. nuclear deterrent. At his second news conference as President a month ago, Nixon observed that "this system adds to our overall defense capability...
...which has jurisdiction over land-based ABMs ? continued to press for its installation on the grounds that some protection was better than none. Army General Earle Wheeler, J.C.S. chairman, has argued that a full-fledged ABM might save between 50 million and 80 million American lives in an ...
...rousing rhubarb is often the best part of a ball game. But after weeks of haggling and threats of an all-out strike, the long-winded dispute between the major-league team owners and the Players Association was getting to be a bore. No one was more annoyed than Bowie Kuhn, the newly appointed commissioner of baseball. Last week, as the negotiators were about to call for yet another vote from the 700 members of the association-a process that would have taken at least two more weeks-Kuhn cut short a Florida vacation and flew back to Manhattan...
...aimed at countering a Russian proposal for a big-power settlement to be imposed on the hostile nations of the region. Such a settlement would protect the Arabs and presumably consolidate Russia's position in the Middle East. But the Russian initiative also stems from fear that any all-out conflict might involve the two superpowers in a nuclear showdown...