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Although many respected observers argue the case, it makes little sense to worry unduly about the vulnerability of the land-based leg of the triad when it accounts for only 20% of the 12,000 warheads in America's strategic nuclear arsenal. Even in the unlikely event that a first strike wiped out the entire American land-based missile force, the U.S. could still obliterate the Soviet % Union with a fraction of the 5,300 warheads on its modern missile submarines and the 4,700 on its bombers. Though the first operational test last week of a Trident II missile...
...Arsenal of Hypocrisy Dept: The Liberal Boutique has some rare, albeit conditional praise for the Bush Administration. Executive branch officials belatedly acknowledged yesterday that the Nicaraguan contras are guilty of human rights abuses, including torturing and raping civilians. Bush, however, still supports his favorite terrorist group...
...hatred tends to homogenize characters while removing their interesting elements. Their actions, however, are hard to ignore. A daring raid on a Boston National Guard armory nets the boyos a cache of M-16s, 40-mm grenade launchers, heavy machine guns and a wardrobe of flak jackets. Getting this arsenal to Belfast involves the cooperation of members of Boston's Irish underground and I.R.A. sympathizers in the U.S. Customs Department...
...Kreel, an alien race, discover an arsenal of superweapons on the planet DQN 1196, and they decide to use them for a violent rampage against their Klingon enemies. With interstellar war imminent, the Federation intervenes, offering to act as an intermediary. The Enterprise becomes the host for delegations from both sides, transporting them to the planet to discover the origin of the weapons...
...commitment to comity with Congress ruled out the Reagan- era approach of proposing draconian, and politically unrealistic, cuts in domestic spending that would be immediately declared "dead on arrival." The familiar device of using overly optimistic economic assumptions to gild the budget was, of course, part of the Administration arsenal. The President's Office of Management and Budget predicts that economic growth alone will reduce the deficit to $127 billion in 1990, yet Congress pegs the number at a more realistic $146 billion. But even pie-in-the-sky scenarios cannot trim the deficit nearly enough to satisfy the requirements...