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...Moscow is "very far along" in missile-defense R. and D. President Reagan, in impromptu comments to the press on Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev's criticism of SDI, ventured the surprising estimate that "the Soviet Union is about ten years ahead of us in developing a defensive system." To buttress such arguments, the Pentagon and State Department jointly released a 27-page pamphlet summing up what Washington knows about the Kremlin's version of Star Wars. Briefing journalists on the report, Defense Intelligence Agency Specialist James McCrery asserted that "for a long time" the Soviets "have been devoting very heavy...
Rock is disinclined to do that. Goldberg says bluntly, "I don't believe these mothers speak for anything resembling the majority," and has enlisted the American Civil Liberties Union to buttress the Musical Majority, an organization of managers, radio executives, publishers and artists, who will mount an offensive against the ratings plan. Increasingly, with Band Aid, Live Aid and Farm Aid, this is a time of social activism for rock, and this storm over ratings breaks at a time when, as Goldberg puts it, "music is getting political again, and some political forces want to put music back...
Moreover, the American presence lends credibility to the system, they say. And Harvard--through owning stock in such companies--directly helps buttress the lated system...
Livermore calculations buttress Teller's theories. In one computer simulation of a detonation of a single-megaton explosion, Physicist Joyce Penner, who heads the laboratory's study of nuclear smoke, found that a column did indeed rise six miles into the sky, but that half the smoke dropped quickly into the troposphere. The 50% that remained aloft, Penner estimated, contained nearly three times the condensation needed to produce rain. This finding suggested that even smoke in the stratosphere, beyond the reaches of normal weather patterns, would create its own storm and fall back to earth...
...country's first Prime Minister after independence in 1974 and an eccentric, authoritarian figure whose unsavory political history made his possible comeback a cause of much concern in Washington. G.U.L.P. won the remaining parliamentary seat, but then rejected it, alleging electoral fraud. Gairy offered a novel theory to buttress his charges of cheating. According to him, the ballots had been treated with a special chemical that was able to change votes to favor the winners. "Science and technology today is so high that I have no reason to doubt this," said Gairy, who once urged the United Nations...