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...aggression. Both the U.S. and the USSR have relied on increasing offensive capacity to cause nuclear stalemate. Defensive systems such as Nike-X have been considered useless in view of bipolar balance, for the very practical reason that such a system would probably be in effective in case of an all-out attack by hundreds of enemy ICBMs...
...minute later Neubert upped the tally to 2-0, by scooping a loose ball amidst a pile of players into the Indian net. Harvard's all-out attack succeeded again when Ted Leary cut in front of the net and tucked the ball into the far corner to make the score...
Trey Burns, another Crimson sophomore, won the 880 in 1:53.4, his best time this year on the Stadium track. But Burns had to go all-out to hold off Bob Stepson's last-lap challenge...
Though the choice may have seemed logical to the outside world, it came about by a circuitous process. In the initial balloting, Aref was the last choice. The generals wanted Major General Abdel Aziz Uqaili, Iraq's Defense Minister, who favors an all-out war to exterminate Iraq's rebellious Kurdish minority. The Cabinet wanted Premier Abdel Rahman Bazzaz, who would slow state socialism. Favoring neither aim, Nasser wanted neither man. With Amer on hand to wield Egypt's influence, the Iraqis finally settled on Aref...
While his brother was hot-tempered and widely feared, new President Aref is a quiet, moderate man who has-if such a thing is possible in Iraq-practically no personal enemies. And his views are more easygoing, too. He feels that an all-out war on the Kurds-which Uqaili was preparing to prosecute in a big spring drive-is an operation that cannot succeed. In one of his first statements, he held out the prospect of local rule for the Kurds, which is as close as any Iraqi chief has come to meeting their demands for autonomy...