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...surprised at the one-sided nature of your discussion in "Freeze No De ployment Yes." This piece ignored all the substantive arguments in favor of a nuclear freeze. For example, it asserted that the freeze almost by definition" is not verifiable. But an array of experts, including former Director of the CIA William Colby former Defense Secretary Clark Clifford and former Chief Arms Control Negotiator Paul Warnke, have stated that a freeze is indeed adequately verifiable, and perhaps more verifiable than many other arms control proposals, including President Reagan's START plan...
...foreign governments consistently subsidize industries to give them an advantage in international competition. A Commerce Department study showed, for example, that government help to European steelmakers amounted to as much as 41% of the value of their products. In response, other nations charge that the U.S. has its own array of subsidies, including low-cost financing through the Export-Import Bank to customers who buy American goods...
...questions and do research about women. In addition, the Committee, in collaboration with many departments and other curricular committees and with Radcliffe College, has effectively increased the resources in Women's Studies around the edges of the curriculum. A wide variety of lectures and symposia has brought an exciting array of scholars here to talk on topics ranging from "Problems and Progress for Chinese Women," to this week's talk by Prof. Natalie Davis of Princeton on "The Sacred and Conjugal Sexuality in Sixteenth-Century Lyons...
...charts and selective statistics. His foremost concerns are land-based intercontinental ballistic missile warheads that can reach the U.S. or intermediate-range ones that threaten Western Europe. In neither case is Reagan fantasizing the problem, but he is exaggerating it. The Soviet advantage in ICBMS is offset by an array of American assets: more and better submarine-launched weapons, a superior Navy and Air Force and a cruise-missile program that is much further along...
Despite the many frustrations of the text, the flow of sympathetic and clearly intelligent ideas carry the reader swiftly along. Mozart is set convincingly in his period with an adequate array of related characters. The astounding achievement of his music is movingly set against the pecuniary and social tragedies of his brief life. The story is further spiced with a succession of sometimes amusing, and always appropriate, anecdotes. (We are told, for example, about the occasion in a Swedish maternity clinic when his Piano Concerto K 467 was successfully used to ease childbirth...