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Ignazio said that similar arrangements in cities such as Arlington were working well, and that municipal rinks had actually grossed profits from admission charges, concession stands and rentals.
If and when the laser, or its high-tech cousins, seems able to protect one superpower against an ICBM strike, the tenuous equation will be upset. Neither the U.S. nor the Soviets could afford to let the other side become invulnerable; such a concession would be virtual surrender. Reagan said...
A little more than a month later, the new Soviet leader, Yuri Andropov, made a live television address that in effect presented this offer. The British and French governments rejected the idea that their nuclear weapons should be on the table in Geneva at; all the superpowers, they said, had...
If that disclaimer had ever given way to formal endorsement by Washington and Moscow, it would have been a very good deal indeed for the U.S. The Soviet Union would have finally sanctioned the introduction of new U.S. weapons in Western Europe. In doing so, Moscow would have tacitly conceded...
Caught off balance by mounting anger over its butterfingered handling of the affair, the government finally relented. The announcement of rationing, it said in a rare concession of fault, "testified to a lack of sufficient sensitivity to the public reception." More astonishing was what came next in the official communiqu...