Word: defeats
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...reason for this is that troops and tanks are far larger drains on the superpower economies than nuclear weapons, and are not nearly as desirable from a technology or prestige point of view. By limiting the ability of the East to predict conventional victory, and the West to expect defeat, a success here would take away any incentive for Soviet attack, or for Western use of nukes in "self-defense" against an attack, Vienna, not Geneva, may prove the best defense of Lawrence, Kansas...
...border between conventional warfare and nuclear warfare of any kind. There is no such thing as "limited" nuclear war, meaning that any use of nukes would probably lead to an all-out exchange. Respond to Soviet aggression in kind and do not attempt to save a conventional defeat with nuclear weapons...
...have prompted tensions. Blacks, notably Gold Medalist Hurdler Willie Davenport, who competed in 1980, have not been warmly welcomed to the chill upstate New York Olympic site. But the prime reason for America's slide from gold is less-than-state-of-the-art equipment. After a typical defeat in an international meet last year, novice Pusher Joe Briski, 28, encountered an East German who told him, "You Americans can send a man to the moon, and you still drive down the mountain on this...
...screened "agony of defeat" image of a ski jumper blowing it on ABC'S Wide World of Sports is an ironically accurate one: Americans have not landed a medal in the 70-or 90-meter event since a 1924 bronze. In Sarajevo, all eyes will be on Finland's renowned Matti Nykanen. That is just fine with Jeff Hastings, 24, and Mike Holland, 22, both legitimate medal contenders. They have flown on their 16-lb. skis since their childhood days in Norwich, Vt. It was not a desire for the limelight that has had them flying. "Defying gravity...
Kissinger and company urge a stepped up campaign by the Salvadoran Army in order to defeat the leftist insurgents and end the country's three-year civil war. Although the group wisely rules out the use of any U.S. troops in El Salvador, it does call for a quadrupling of U.S. military aid in the next year to the order of $250 million, adding the important condition that aid be contingent on the Salvadoran Government's success on curbing the rightist death squads and securing basic human rights. Such a condition, unlike in the past, must be strictly adhered...