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...G.I.s who now float on a comfortable cloud of acceptance as our "rescuers" may find themselves rejected as "invaders...
...Ehrlich picked as their "baseline case" a 5,000 megaton war. (One megaton equals 1 million tons of TNT; the explosive power of all strategic nuclear warheads possessed by the U.S. and Soviet Union is thought to total 12,000 megatons.) The results of such a war: a cloud of dust and smoke weighing 1.2 billion tons rapidly envelops the Northern Hemisphere and swiftly swirls into the Southern Hemisphere as well, blocking out 90% or more of the sun's light. Surface temperatures plunge to an average of -13° F and remain below freezing for three months, even...
...Israeli commanders said that Illouz had, by shooting the terrorist, probably prevented the truck from getting closer to the headquarters and causing even more casualties. "By the time I arrived a few minutes later," a brigadier general told TIME Correspondent David Halevy, "the region was covered with a huge cloud of smoke, and the buildings were on fire...
...commitment. He was followed two days later by Vice President George Bush, who visited the site of the carnage wearing a helmet and flak jacket. On Thursday, Secretary of State George Shultz conferred with his French, Italian and British counterparts in the Paris suburb La Celle-Saint-Cloud. After a five-hour meeting under unusually tight security, at a secluded 17th century chateau, French Foreign Minister Claude Cheysson reiterated "the support of our governments for the Multi-National Force." In his nationwide address on television Thursday evening, President Ronald Reagan made the most forceful pitch for a continuation...
Grief and anger cloud their loving memories of the victims...