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...President planned to add 17,000 nuclear explosive devices to the existing arsenal of 25,000 (which includes armaments for shorter-range missiles, as well as artillery shells, demolition mines and torpedoes). This kind of warhead inflation, seemingly far in excess of what the U.S. should need to deter the Soviets, tends to justify the question asked by those who want a weapons freeze: "How much is enough?" Too often the Administration's answer seems to be simply: "More, much more, as much as possible...
...level, it was a generous and good-neighborly offer to promote prosperity among the almost two dozen diverse countries of the Caribbean Basin. On a more strategic plane, it was designed as a political instrument to deter domestic turmoil in a region ripe for left-wing revolutions. And on its most basic level, Ronald Reagan's Caribbean Basin Initiative, announced amid much fanfare to the Organization of American States last week, is the logical outgrowth of an agonizing yearlong struggle to support the beleaguered current government of El Salvador and draw the line against further expansion of Soviet...
Rogers said NATO's mission is to "deter war by maintaining peace with freedom" and defined diplomatic success as achieving "equitable arms control measures...
...freshman merely because of his heritage--he was a New Yorker, and Jewish. Other attempts to enter what he though was the mainstream of college life were wasted. After starring in Morristown football, Reed decided to give freshman crew a try. Even being the last man cut didn't deter his efforts to join the crew organization--he immediately began competing for the position of assistant manager for the varsity. Selling more season subscriptions than anyone else, Reed thought he had the position locked up--until the manager of the competition extended the time period, allowing a favored...
Originally a city-based group, the Angels have lately begun to set up chapters in the suburbs. In bedroom communities around Pittsburgh and Los Angeles, for example, their mission is to deter house break-ins and assaults in shopping malls. In the process of expanding, the Angels are trying to shed their image as a squad of reformed ghetto toughs. In the Midwest and West, many volunteers are middle-class whites. Says Sliwa: "In Los Angeles I was astounded to see blond-haired, blue-eyed boys drive up in cars with surfboards, park and go out on patrol...