Word: burnes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...classical dilemma of our age--our government finds itself making devices which nobody wants, everyone fears, and are never intended for use. But we are also left with a type of weapon which, sadly, cannot really escape the cruel dictates of deterrence theory. Despite their admitted horror, weapons which burn lungs, spread plague or shatter central nervous systems still respond to the same "logic" as nukes--if the United States has them the Soviets will be less tempted to use them...
Storm, calm and storm again. Angered by what they consider discrimination against then" religion, 100,000 militant Sikhs prepared last week to burn copies of Article 25 of the Indian constitution, which they complained fails to recognize their special place in the nation. Then the government of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi announced it would consider amending Article 25, and the constitution burning was called off. But just when the situation seemed to be cooling, the violence that has plagued the Punjab for 18 months exploded ferociously. Early last week Sikh extremists lobbed hand grenades into a religious house near their...
...Soviets already have several means of foiling attempts at booster-stage interception. For example, the U.C.S. panel said, the Soviets could increase the power of their weapons' rocket boosters, cutting their burn time from a present average of 5 min. to as little as 40 sec. "We know very well how to defeat these defensive systems," says Henry Kendall, an M.I.T. physics professor and U.C.S. chairman. "We don't know how to build them." Further work on the project, the U.C.S. scientists contend, will destabilize the strategic balance, which depends on both sides being equally vulnerable to attack...
...looks like the habitat of tomcats. The seat cushions are misshapen and filthy, the refrigerator contains nothing but beer and soda, the larder has only peanut butter and crackers, but coffee is perpetually on the boil. Kuralt favors the lived-in look: a blue blazer with a burn mark, a rumpled yellow sweater that strains over his stomach, gray flannels worn to slickness. He chain-smokes Pall Malls and eats lunch at hamburger joints or not at all. If TV news is glamorous, apparently no one has told Kuralt...
...close friends say no. To them, Hart can be warm and trusting, perhaps too much so. "When he trusts somebody, he is very candid," says Denver Lawyer Hal Haddon, who has known Hart since 1968. "And some of the people he trusts are going to burn him publicly. He's not been burned as much as he is going to be burned...