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Historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr. at San Diego State University: "We cannot acquiesce in the drift toward Armageddon. For the stake is supreme: it is the fate of humanity itself. Let me say at once that the answer to the arms race is not unilateral nuclear disarmament. The renunciation of nuclear weapons by the West would place the democratic world at the mercy of Soviet Communism. History has proven beyond all argument that mercy is not a salient characteristic of any Communist regime. Neither the arms race nor unilateral disarmament holds out hope. What we must do rather is to revive...
Even if the two plants were permanently closed, however, the consequences might not be the Armageddon suggested by some of the inflamed reactions after last week's ruling. The plants together can deliver some 1,800 megawatts of electricity-when they are operating. As it happens, the state-owned 965-megawatt Indian Point No. 3 plant has been out of action for more than a year because of leaks and corroding pipes. During that time, there has been no noticeable effect on the cost or delivery of electricity in the most populous U.S. metropolitan area...
...Dallas, Allen came to be known as "Richard Nixon with a whistle." Both saw service with Whittier College's rugged football squad, the Poets, and just as Nixon habitually spoke of world calamities in the idiom of sports, Allen regularly referred to football games in terms of Armageddon. There were other similarities...
...spartan $26-a-night room at the Downtown Motel in Washington. While in Washington, he obtained a prescription for Thorazine, a powerful tranquilizer used for the treatment of psychotic disorders. Day after day during the past few months, displaying a wooden sign warning against the perils of nuclear Armageddon, he picketed the White House. According to Bauer, one of Mayer's favorite quotations was: "We're flawed, bungling human beings incapable of making clear, rational decisions." It is an appropriate epitaph for a flawed, ramshackle life that concluded with a bungled, irrational gesture...
...world's richest gold fields on their farm; plus an indelible supporting cast of victims and survivors. The Afrikaners, caroming between wealth and catastrophe, assaulted by tribal warriors, defeated by the British in the Boer War, grow diamond hard with circumstance until today they speak more readily of Armageddon than of dinner. Yet the best of them can see the tragedy of the blacks as the reverse image of their own history, and acknowledge the need for justice. Their dilemma may be insoluble, but whatever answer the future will provide, as one farmer puts it, is "waiting...