Word: attacker
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...kind of shell game called MAP (multiple aiming points). For each of 200 Minuteman ICBMS there would be not one underground silo but 20, of which 19 would be empty. The 200 missiles would secretly be shuttled among the 4,000 holes, making them less liable to surprise attack. But Vance, Warnke and other diplomats do not think much of the scheme, saying the Soviets would want the same thing, and it would be hard to detect cheating. As a result, Vance discussed mobile missiles at length with Gromyko but not specifically...
...only their interpreters, in a small room dominated by an oil portrait of Brezhnev. One issue that remained unresolved was the problem of the Soviets' Backfire bomber, which Moscow says should not be included in the SALT ceilings because it does not have the range at present to attack the U.S. The U.S. argues that it could be adapted for long-range use and wants written restrictions on its deployment. Vance believes this is a political problem and must be handled at the presidential level...
...interest," he said. And the way to limit the growth of Communism, he emphasized, was "to make democracy work." Repeatedly, Carter urged his listeners to speak up for human rights, including the right of citizens to disagree with actions of their governments. And again, he vowed: "We consider an attack on Western Europe to be the same as an attack on the U.S. Whatever happens, Berlin will remain free...
DIED. Thomas B. Hess, 57, former editor of Art News magazine, who last February became chairman of 20th century art at the Metropolitan Museum; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. As art critic for New York magazine in the 1970s, Hess kept alive his romance with abstract expressionism...
People who grow their own anything are usually good for about seven minutes of conversation before they suffer an attack of smugness. Apparently their listeners are required to feel inferior because they do not render their own lard or weave their own shirts. Author Noel Perrin, who putters at Vermont farming when he is not teaching English at Dartmouth or writing graceful scholarly books (Dr. Bawdier's Legacy), deserves a longer hearing. True, Perrin sometimes sounds like a country snob who would be horrified if the supermarket patrons he patronizes actually swarmed to New England in search...