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...Though its origins are murky, the term "zero option" has been used by different people to describe various schemes for eliminating or reducing intermediate-and medium-range nuclear missiles in Europe. On the face of it, President Reagan's version seems straightforward enough. The President has proposed to cancel the planned deployment of 108 Pershing II and 464 ground-launched cruise missiles. In turn, the Soviets must agree to dismantle some 350 aging SS-4 and SS-5 missiles, plus 250 or more new SS-20 missiles...
...subscribes to neither of these patterns. The president has no discernable interest in foreign affairs and has assigned it a low priority on his administration's agenda. Earlier this year, he downgraded the National Security Council (NSC) from a policy-making body to a deliberative one. These two factors cancel the White House out of assuming the leadership in conducting foreign policy...
...Winthrop House Drama Society may have to cancel its production of "Brimstone and Treacle" because a film production company has purchased exclusive rights to the play...
...night and broke up outhouses to burn in campfires. An abundant young woman wearing bib overalls and nothing else, as some accounts have it, got up on the bandstand at Craftsbury and danced. The opinion in Rutland is that she was a hippie. The voters of Craftsbury decided to cancel the affair next year, though it could be brought back by petition...
Student officers of several Houses have recently charged that the College has "cracked down" by enforcing the booze restrictions unusually stringently at their Houses. Most recently, Quincy House was forced to cancel a College-wide Halloween party after it was denied an alcohol permit by Archie C. Epps III. dean of students...