Word: buildups
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...until his own ouster from power in 1964. Although an important record of the past, the former Soviet leader's freewheeling reminiscences bear directly on many contemporary issues. He discusses hitherto unknown incidents that contributed to the present Moscow-Peking conflict. He provides insights into the Soviet missile buildup, and the mutual suspicions that prevented any Russian-U.S. arms limitations accord. Khrushchev also presents typically blunt assessments of contemporary world political figures he dealt with, including Mao Tse-tung, Dwight Eisenhower, John Kennedy and Richard Nixon...
...Monday, for example, a powerful explosion tore the western wall from a 24-story office building in Manhattan, injuring more than 90 people. Witness after witness told of smelling gas fumes before the explosion, and the city's fire commissioner called it "highly probable" that a weekend buildup of gas caused the blast. Con Ed automatically issued a statement denying that gas, which it provides for the city, was involved...
...other causes and may indeed underlie some of them. For example, the Type A's instantly aggressive response to trivial slights and threats may set off a chain reaction of hormonal changes that can impair the metabolism of fats or cholesterol, thus accelerating the buildup of these substances in the coronary arteries...
...only 740 have departed.) But the inaccuracies Martin finds do not undercut Shipler's major points. These Martin attacks with invective and some assertions of his own. The "course of the war" is not set by U.S. aid; rather it is set by "the continuous and continuing Communist buildup." In fact, materiel from both Hanoi and the U.S. contribute to the tempo of military action. Martin never directly claims that there have been no South Vietnamese violations of the ceasefire; he attacks Shipler for not presenting "a shred of evidence" of such violations. "The U.S.," he insists...
Schlesinger argues that big as the proposed $85.8 billion budget for 1975 sounds, it is really rather modest. Allowing for inflation, it is about $8.7 billion less than was spent in 1964, before the big Viet Nam buildup began. The proposed 1975 outlays would consume 5.9% of the U.S. gross national product ?the same portion as last year but far less than the 8.3% of the G.N.P...