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...Congress revive American weapons production which was halted in 1969 when the Nixon Administration unilaterally stopped stockpiling weapons? There are several explanations. First, the breakdown of detente has NATO allies on edge. Second, it is an election year and few Congressmen want to be known as "soft" on defense spending. And last, unconfirmed reports are circulating that the Soviets used chemical weapons in Afghanistan...
Harvard goalie Ben Erulcar saw it coming, he saw the Columbia forwards criss-cross in front of him, he saw the breakdown in communication among the Crimson backfielders which left Columbia freshman Steve Sirtis wide open on the left side...
...Harvard opportunity, which came when the score was already 3-0, wasn't the result of any sort of Columbia defensive breakdown. Down 2-0 at the half, Ford pulled out all the stops, instituting a 4-2-4 to add offensive firepower...
They are ordinary people, if by that one means that they enjoy conventional middle-class prosperity and adhere to traditional family values. If the problem that the Jarrett family faces-an adolescent son trying to recover from a mental breakdown signaled by a suicide attempt-is perhaps an extreme one, it is hardly unknown in bourgeois America. Nor are the tensions that have been moving for a long time beneath the surface of the Jarretts' existence-an inability to express genuine affection or even speak frankly-exactly exotic...
...punctuates his thoughts with "It's so hard to explain this in the United States," because the creed of the Argentine journalist is indeed foreign. "You don't think about getting scoops," Cox says, "but you want to use information in order to arouse people's consciences about this breakdown in society." Cox's paper also tries to avoid expressing a political ideology. To him, the left and the right in Argentina have become almost identical in their use of terror and torture; and both have equally been waging psychological warfare...