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Karl Kaiser, director of the Research Institute of the West German Society for Foreign Affairs and one of his country's foremost strategic thinkers, suggested an answer: "Probably at the beginning the SS-20 was just a modernization program, but now with the debate in the West, I am...
The proposal made by McNamara and his colleagues has its flaws. It does not explicitly make the buildup of conventional forces in Europe a prerequisite for renouncing the first-use doctrine. Yet without such a buildup, Western Europe would be very vulnerable to Soviet military attack. Foreign policy experts for...
Yet occasionally a work comes along that sums up everything-right or wrong-about a given period so completely that nothing can come after it: an unequivocal double bar, a decisive fine. Such a piece is the late German composer Bernd Alois Zimmermann's sprawling, eclectic but ultimately unsuccessful...
Twelve years in development at a cost of $4 million, AID (for Automatic Implantable Defibrillator) is largely a triumph for Cardiologist Michel Mirowski, 55, who migrated from Israel with the aim of perfecting it against almost unanimous medical opposition. Experts doubted that such miniaturized equipment could work inside the body...
But since the Nazi Holocaust, the play has been a source of controversy as well as cash. Jews and liberal Christians alike have charged the play with antiSemitism. The recounting of Christ's Passion, though it is drawn from the New Testament, embroiders considerably upon the biblical accounts. The...