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DETERRENCE--the notion that we must build up our nuclear stockpile in order to confront potential Soviet first-strikers with the certainty of their own annihilation--is the rationalization for Reagan's program, as it has been for each previous step-up in the arms race. As Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger '38 declared, "We set out to...achieve improved capabilities to entiance deterrence and U.S. capabilities to prevail should deterrence fail. "This is a difficult principle to live by--it requires constant restatement and re-justification by America's leadership. Hence the recent reply of New York's Cardinal Cooke...
...late 1930's, when Harvard's nonprofessional workers organized, two unions represented most of the University's employees. Over the intervening 40 years the original duo fractured into nine smaller organizations formed along more specialized lines. Nevertheless, many of the issues and problems they confront retain strong similarities. Although the character and membership of the current unions vary greatly, their primary concerns--wages, benefits and join security--are substantially the same. They have negotiated separately and chosen different bargaining strategies, yet may of the largest contracts possess strong parallels. And all the unions have been confronted by a common problem...
PHILADELPHIA, Pa.--Sustained intensity the ability to confront a stronger opponent battle to a standoff and then make a final gutsy charge thus is what the Harvard men's basketball looks...
...that the Reagan Administration has presented its version of the budget, Congress will take over and actually set the spending limits. Alice Rivlin, director of the Congressional Budget Office and a guest at last week's meeting, pointed out that the lawmakers confront "a very new and different situation that budgeters have never been in before." Past budgets have contained projections that deficits would cease within two to four years. Reason: inflation would boost Americans into higher tax brackets and thus increase revenues faster than spending. The Reagan tax-cut bill passed by Congress last summer changed that pattern...
...thanks to nonstop recruiting. Still, that success may not go on for long. They have necessarily backed off the 1975 date, but the End must occur during the lifetime of people who still remember the earthly events of 1914. With the rapidly thinning ranks of such oldsters, the Witnesses confront an increasingly troublesome, self-imposed and absolute deadline. -By Richard N. Ostling. Reported by Anne Constable/Atlanta