Word: chosing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Even if the President, for whatever reason, chose to "absorb" a Soviet first strike, thereby sacrificing most of his ICBMs, the destruction sustained by the U.S. would be immense?as many as 20 U.S. would be immense?as many as 20 million killed, and perhaps twice that number wounded. Would the President consider that a "surgical, Limited strike" and respond accordingly? Or would he order a devastating retaliation from his missile-firing submarines? At least 15 of those boats would be untouched and undetectable, deep at sea, each carrying at least 16 missiles, each missile tipped with eight...
...Thomas chose such anonymity because he had become an instant personality. He was, no less, the man who had finally solved the mystery of Masquerade. That fantasy for children by British Author-Painter Kit Williams has been a surprise bestseller for almost three years (1.5 million copies in eight languages). Climaxing a feverish 18-month hunt, Thomas had dug up the $10,000 bejeweled golden rabbit in Ampthill Park, Bedfordshire...
...Fools Crows granddaughters. Vine Mae, chose to move away from the rural areas to a federally-constructed cluster housing project in the reservation town of Kyle, where she lives in a three-bedroom house with three children, two sisters, and her sisters' three children. Unlike her grandparents. Vine Mae has central heating, running water, and a telephone. But she is unemployed, and away from the rural areas where people fill time chopping wood, hauling water and preparing for winter. Her only pastime is drinking...
Although Vine Mae chose to remain on the reservation despite the dearth of jobs, many of Fools Crow's other granddaughters leave every fall in search of employment in off-reservation cities Barbara Rock. Fools Crow's 29-year-old grand daughter, has chosen this option, she lives and works off-reservation most of the year, as she has since she ran away from a reservation-based Catholic boarding school at 14. Most summers, though, when the one-room log cabin behind her grandparents' house is habitable, she returns, as do many of the grandchildren and great-grandchildren living...
Haig contended that the proposed freeze would be "devastating" since it would preserve as much as a "six-to-one" Soviet advantage in nuclear weapons in Europe. Kennedy and Hatfield shot back that the Secretary chose "to use misleading figures to attack his caricature of that resolution." In Europe, they argued, the Soviets have 2,000 nuclear warheads, vs. 1,200 for NATO. The Senators stressed that the proposed freeze would be worldwide, not just in Europe, and that overall the U.S. has 9,000 warheads, vs. only 7,000 for the Soviet Union. (The London-based International Institute...