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...pursuing his Star Wars program. Said the Soviet leader: "Instead of wasting the next ten to 15 years by developing new weapons in space, allegedly designed to make nuclear arms useless, would it not be more sensible to eliminate those arms?" Reagan is caught in a public relations bind: it will be difficult for him to explain convincingly why he is prepared to scuttle a plan to rid the world of nuclear missiles by insisting on the right to build a defensive shield against those missiles. The Soviets are likely to confront Reagan with the somewhat illogical statement he made...
...been there before--in a bind that is, and maybe even in another life. On location in the Peruvian Andes, Shirley MacLaine, 51, found herself and her script embroiled in an intercultural tussle involving extraterrestrials and ancient monuments. (No, Steven Spielberg is not the producer.) The project is Out on a Limb, a five-hour ABC mini-series for November based on her 1983 autobiography of the same title. Citing passages where MacLaine suggests that Machu Picchu and the giant desert drawings known as the Nazca Lines were made by visitors from outer space rather than by the Peruvians...
...weapons will land on Soviet targets, after taking account of the attrition the U.S. missile force will suffer as it passes through the Soviet defenses. So for the U.S. to deploy an ABM defense is the wrong response to the Soviet action. But since we are in this bind, why don't we do this: put a small amount of money in the budget for ABM procurement, but state in the budget, and in my written report to the Congress, that none of those funds will be spent and no decision will be made to deploy an ABM system until...
...that is unfortunate; though it does not have to, a mystery can all too easily metamorphose into a threat. Most Americans don't realize the extent to which China's future and that of the U.S. are linked. It isn't just down vests--or toys or shoes--that bind the U.S. and China together. China holds billions of dollars of U.S. debt; its companies increasingly compete with U.S. ones for vital resources like oil; its geopolitical behavior will affect the outcome of issues of key importance to U.S. policymakers, like North Korea's nuclear arms capacity. Although their political...
Deborah's bitter account is only her side of the story, because her sister could not be contacted. But it does illustrate that the way siblings negotiate such challenges can determine their future as a family. Those trials can bind brothers and sisters together or, as Deborah's story shows, send them spiraling into a vortex of animosity and despair...