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...Star Wars: Pro and Con" [NATION, Oct. 29], you say that the best argument against President Reagan's space-based defense plan is that the system would have to be 100% effective but cannot be. The requirement of perfection is misleading. The key question: Shall we have an imperfect defense and save 90% of the U.S. from a Soviet attack or no defense and let the nation be destroyed...
...operation were to take place in this state, Bailey would have had to apply for a certificate of need (CON), she says. "We would have asked: will the operation take money and time away from patients who stand a much better chance of survival? Is it too expensive? What would be the quality of life afterwards? What would all the drugs do to her tiny body...
...also been closely associated with populist-conservative gurs Richard Viguerie, publisher of the Conservative Digest, who donsted $1000 to Shamie's 1984 campaign, included him on his list of 500 top givers to pop-con causes, and until recently was reportedly a close Shamie advisor...
...heart attack; in Burlingame, Calif. He started his career in the 1930s as America's first major male star, dancing for George Balanchine and Lincoln Kirstein in a precursor of today's New York City Ballet. Creator of such popular, diverse works as Filling Station and Con Amore, Christensen, with his dancing brothers Harold and Willam, helped to build the quality of ballet in the western...
...Storm King Mountain hydroelectric power plant. Harvard appointed a committee to look into whether the land should be sold and, in January 1973, which drew up a report detailing the potential environmental nightmares which Storm King would have created--but advised Harvard "not to oppose" selling the land to Con Ed. Only after vigorous protests from environmentalists and students--2000 of whom in February signed a petition blasting the proposed sale--did Harvard back down...