Word: destroyers
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...also important to improve NATO's capability to wage conventional war, so as to convince Soviet decision makers that they cannot count on a quick victory in Western Europe. That does not mean giving NATO a capability to "win" in the classic sense -- any more than our ability to destroy the U.S.S.R. in retaliation for a nuclear attack on the U.S. means an ability to "win" in a strategic war. It is a combination of nuclear and conventional capabilities that deters. That is what Dukakis seeks...
...sure, you have strongly supported efforts to achieve further arms- control agreements. Nonetheless, for us unilaterally to curtail our strategic programs, as you have suggested, would remove much of the Soviet Union's military incentive for compromise and thus destroy much of America's leverage in negotiations. In recent months, as you have moved toward the political center, you have acknowledged the continued necessity for nuclear deterrence and have indicated that, despite your opposition to the MX and Midgetman, you are not necessarily against a new ICBM in principle. Yet you will find that any new missile program is impossible...
Though the movie is not scheduled for release by Universal Pictures until this fall, a storm of protest has already begun. At a press conference last week, a group of conservative Christian ministers demanded that the studio destroy all copies of the film. The ministers, who had not seen the film but had read a version of the screenplay, charged that it portrays Jesus "as a mentally deranged and lust-driven man." Said the Rev. Lloyd John Ogilvie of the First Presbyterian Church of Hollywood: "It is the most serious misuse of film craft in the history of filmmaking...
Some experts now look for Managua to launch an offensive to destroy the contras, perhaps as soon as early August. Government newspapers and radio stations have begun a drum roll of reports proclaiming that "the people" are demanding action against the rebels. An all-out attack by Nicaragua's 70,000- strong army would catch the contras at their weakest. Cut adrift by their U.S. patrons and torn by internal feuding, the guerrillas barely resemble a credible fighting force. About 6,000 rebels remain in Honduras, where the government is increasingly eager to see them leave, or are camped along...
...preoccupied with its image, can view almost any event as just another opportunity to shine. Even General Sherman's burning of Atlanta has been a matter of pride, central to the saga of a great city rising from the ashes, although Sherman did not exactly "burn Atlanta." He did destroy whatever was of value to the Confederate war effort, but, according to Franklin Garrett, the city's official historian, Atlanta suffered less damage during the war than Columbia, S.C., or Richmond, Va. When was the last time you heard anything about Columbia, S.C., rising from the ashes...