Word: arsenale
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Brent Scowcroft, Bush's National Security Adviser, has been pushing for nearly a decade for a new kind of nuclear arsenal -- small forces of mobile, single-warhead missiles that would replace those with multiple warheads, which he regards as more destabilizing because they invite a pre-emptive strike. Scowcroft sketched this vision eight years ago as chairman of President Reagan's Commission on Strategic Forces, and he is now seeing it become reality. Said one Administration official of Bush's announcement: "This is the unwritten appendix to the Scowcroft commission...
...from the Oval Office on Friday evening, the President was proposing nothing less than a new set of guidelines for nuclear peace in the post-cold war world. He was, for once, ahead of the curve, demonstrating real leadership in his capacity as Commander in Chief of the doomsday arsenal...
...charge that Columbus' arrival instigated genocide has become a major weapon in the anti-Columbian arsenal. George Tinker, a Native American who teaches at the Iliff School of Theology in Denver, says of the quincentennial plans: "We're talking about celebrating the great benefit to some people brought by the murder of other people." Further to Columbus' discredit, at the bar of contemporary judgment, is his identity as a white European male. Across the U.S., academicians will be jetting to innumerable conferences where they will give papers on the colonial depredations and horrors that Columbus inaugurated. Author Hans Koning...
...nuclear-free world but a complicated mix of ideas old and new, unilateral actions and proposals for fresh negotiations with Moscow. And in those negotiations, the U.S. opening position to some extent will continue the old game of "Let's get rid of the mainstays of your nuclear arsenal, but not of ours...
Harvard did play well defensively in the first half, containing Northeastern's arsenal of Debra Sweeney, Shelley Morris and Lisa Samson. Harvard played tenaciously, hustling to cover Northeastern free hits and making some effective short passes...