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...cautionary tale told by David Rosenbaum, an independent nuclear analyst in Washington, is about blackmail on a huge and frightening scale. A terrorist group manages to construct a nuclear weapon and uses it to blast the top off a peak in the Blue Ridge Mountains. The President is then told that other bombs have been planted in three U.S. cities and will be detonated unless he agrees to their terms: a total overseas troop withdrawal, an annual donation of $50 billion for Third World projects and the release of all black and Hispanic prisoners. It sounds like the stuff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Backpack Nuke | 6/3/1985 | See Source »

Jacqueline O'Neill, associate vice president for government and community affairs, said the University is cager to make a compromise and construct something on the site...

Author: By Thomas J. Winslow, | Title: Commission Willing to Negotiate Demolition Delay | 4/17/1985 | See Source »

This spring, that search may have ended for main groups thanks to the long-awaited construct on of the Cambridge Multicultural Arts Center (CMAC...

Author: By Rebecca W. Carman, | Title: Historic Building To Open Its Doors to City's Multicultural Arts | 4/9/1985 | See Source »

There is no correct response, no incorrect response to this work of art, no intellectual construct to decode. The challenge is simply to experience it and to respond. Jonathan Marks Literary Director American Repertory Theatre

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Response | 3/4/1985 | See Source »

...before Ash Wednesday, the commencement of Lent, which means 40 days of penitence, blurred bibulously by last week in preponderantly Roman Catholic Louisiana, where the excesses were so fulsome, the wassail so all embracing, that the effect upon a paragrapher who participated was the loss of the ability to construct a straight sentence, or so it feels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Louisiana: a Mad, Mad Mardi Gras | 3/4/1985 | See Source »

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