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...because of a Boy Scouts' crime-stopping campaign, there was some voluntary fingerprinting of youngsters and adults. The FBI, which has many of those earlier records, says the prints have helped identify victims of fires, airplane crashes and crimes. Few believe, however, that the present print wave will deter many kidnapers or help locate many missing children. Still, for frightened parents it satisfies the need to do something. Says Martha Carter, whose son and two daughters had their prints taken in a Dallas suburb in April: "We mark all our silver. We might as well have some...
...Community, she said, would "put at risk millions of jobs." Thatcher promised to denationalize such major government-owned companies as British Airways, Rolls-Royce and British Telecom. She made it equally plain that a new Thatcher government would stand by its commitment to improve Britain's nuclear deter rent by buying U.S.-built, submarine-launched Trident missiles and would continue to support the planned deployment of U.S. cruise missiles at the British bases at Greenham Common and Molesworth...
...vulnerable" and "inferior". he has tried to create an erroneous impression that we could be completely knocked out by a first strike ignoring the ability of our submarines to deliver a second strike long after our land based forces are destroyed. The Commission sums it up this way:"... to deter such surprise attacks we can reasonably rely on both out strategic forces [we bombers and subs] and on the range of operational uncertainties that the Soviets would have to consider in planning such aggression...
Midgetman, as Scowcroft showed, is the way to avoid all of this A growth in the numbers of launchers (i.e. targets) without an increase in the number of warheads would deter the Soviets by increasing their uncertainty of first strike success. And it would leave them free to pursue a similar policy, making the deterrence mutual...
Another important alteration clashed with U.S. and NATO policy, which allows for the possibility of an Allied first-strike use of nuclear weapons; the theory is that this threat will deter an attack by the superior non-nuclear forces of the Soviet bloc. The bishops adopted an amendment offered by San Francisco's archbishop, John R. Quinn: "We do not perceive any situation in which the deliberate initiation of nuclear warfare on however restricted a scale can be morally justified...