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...through all the nuclear development, one thing has remained clear: the conventional force equation is at the root of the European political split that fuels our nuclear dilemma. Nukes only destroy; they don't conquer territory, achieve revolution or political reform, or even apply total pressure. Nuclear weapons' only use, as former Defense Secretary Robert McNamara has recently written, is for deterrence; as a practical component of Western defense strategy, they are useless. Not so with convention forces. The MBFR talks offer a chance for the West to start redressing what some have estimated as a 3-1 Wasrsaw Pact...
...revered ancients of the revolution were pushed to death. Li Ta, one of the original founding fathers of the Communist Party of China in 1921, was "struggled" against until he committed suicide. He Long, a Robin Hood peasant bandit who became a marshal of the Red Army and helped conquer south-central China for the revolution, had been a hero. He Long suffered from diabetes, but the hospital denied him water, then injected him with glucose instead of insulin. So he died...
...abused children become adults, more and more are openly discussing their pasts, both to conquer their emotional problems and to help others deal with theirs. Private and government agencies are forming to aid the victims. At the same time, public awareness of child abuse has taken a quantum jump. In 1976, for example, polls showed that only about 10% of Americans considered it a serious national problem. A recent Louis Harris survey placed that concern...
Journalist Richard Critchfield: $244,000 in 1981. "At 50," says Critchfield, "I was an aging freelance reporter who wrote about Third World villages and was finding it harder to make a go of it." The grant helped him conquer those concerns. "I'm saving the whole thing and then I'm going to live off the interest," says Critchfield. "It's income forever, and it affects your writing. It becomes freer. Your anxiety level drops...
...when he stumbles a bit the criticism seems to echo." After slipping slightly in public opinion surveys and being topped by Cranston in a June straw poll of party activists in Wisconsin, Mondale has attracted withering scrutiny. Is he too beholden to special-interest groups? Can he conquer his image of outdated liberalism? Is he the most electable challenger to Ronald Reagan? Pollster Patrick Caddell, a colleague and occasional antagonist of Mondale's in the Carter White House, says bluntly, "He's vulnerable. Can he excite people enough to central themes...