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...Soviets are on the brink of acquiring a mobile ICBM right now. They were working on one, called the SS-16, until 1977, but were persuaded during SALT II to cancel that program. The SS-16 is a three-stage big brother of the two-stage SS-20 intermediate-range ballistic missile that has upset the military balance in Europe. Late last year, the old SS-16 test site at Plesetsk, near the White Sea in northwestern Russia, was the scene of fresh activity, suggesting that the program might be started up again on short notice...
...lakes by the end of the century if nothing is done to curb acid rain. Already, 2,000 to 4,000 lakes in Ontario have become so acidified that they can no longer support trout and bass, and some 1,300 more in Quebec are on the brink of destruction. In Nova Scotia, nine rivers used as spawning grounds by Atlantic salmon in the spring no longer teem with fish...
...even the politicians on the commission were unwilling to gamble that an economic boom would save them from difficult decisions. New York Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, a Democrat who last year leveled a charge of "political terrorism" against those who said that Social Security was on the brink of bankruptcy, groused that the $150 billion to $200 billion figure was too high, but he went along with it "in the interest of harmony...
...American President was carrying a big stick: roughly a 10-to-1 superiority over the U.S.S.R. in nuclear weaponry. At the time, and for years afterward, it was commonly accepted in both Moscow and Washington that the overwhelming U.S. nuclear advantage had enabled Kennedy to go to the brink and force Khrushchev to back down. The episode humiliated the Soviet leadership and contributed to Khrushchev's downfall two years later. Leonid Brezhnev and his comrades were determined that the Soviet Union catch up to the U.S. in all forms of military power, but particularly in the nuclear forces that...
...None of the business of the committee is ever ledby any one person," said Linda Brink, a committee member and research associate in Pathology at the Medical School...