Word: destroyers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...officials reported the incident to campus police, but vandals broke in again the next night and tried to destroy the room's other computers, according to the student newspaper...
While Pipes said the treaty allows the Soviet Union to project a more positive image abroad, Marshall I. Goldman, associate director of the Russian Research Center, said that the INF treaty is advantageous to the U.S. because the Soviets will have to destroy four missiles for every one that the U.S. destroys. Goldman, who will attend a lunch today at which Gorbachev will be present, explained that the Soviet leader must sign the agreement because his country has economic problems and cannot afford to spend so much money on missiles...
...what is Gorbachev really hawking? Many Americans gloat that INF will force the Soviets to destroy more missiles than we will. But these observers fail to see the treaty's strategic and political significance. The INF treaty is not the bargain it seems because an increasingly denuclearized Europe favors the Soviet advantage in conventional weapons--allowing the Kremlin to use its military superiority to threaten the West in a crisis. The removal of the Pershings will breed NATO infighting over who will bear a heavier defense burden and may portend an eventual American pullout from Western Europe...
Zenith Star stands as a symbol for the ailments besetting the entire Star Wars program. Slowed by development problems and weakened by funding cuts, SDI is a far cry from achieving Reagan's four-year-old dream of a system that could "intercept and destroy" all incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles...
...have dared predict after the collapse of their meeting in Reykjavik just 13 months ago. That they will accomplish their stated goal became a certainty last Tuesday, when U.S. Secretary of State George Shultz and Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze resolved the last differences holding up a treaty to destroy all Soviet and U.S. missiles with ranges of 300 to 3,400 miles...