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...defense planning rests on the assumption that all-out war, if it comes, will begin with a Soviet nuclear attack against U.S. missile and bomber bases. To deter the Russians from launching such an attack, the U.S. needs a tough, reliable, intercontinental ballistic missile that can be mass produced, buried in the ground, and fired within 15 minutes of the instant that enemy rockets first flash onto the radar screens of the Ballistic Missile Early Warning System in Alaska and Greenland. It is now convincingly clear that the Air Force has developed just such a missile: the Minuteman...
...study. It's probably handwriting." >Oxford's student magazine Isis was appalled when St. Hilda's College expelled a girl undergraduate found in bed with a man. "In or out of Oxford, girls will be girls," said Isis, and "no amount of petty restrictions" can possibly "deter any girl who wants to notch a string of seductions on her garter...
...sentence was light, and Gold-farb thought it reflected a softening attitude towards sit-ins here. Just before the jury made its decision, the prosecution asked them to use the sentence to help deter any further agitation in Alexandria...
Others argued that the change in name would do little if anything to deter those who might use it to the detriment of the organization, and said proper election of council officers and reservation of the right of impeachment are more important than a name change. One student called the name "Innocuous" and said if the student council really means it is as "Innocuous" a body as the new name implies, then there is no reason for its continued existence...
Broadly Based. "But our real strength in Berlin-and at any other point in the perimeter of the free world's defenses that might tempt the Communist probes-is much more broadly based. Our confidence in our ability to deter Communist action, or resist Communist blackmail, is based upon a sober appreciation of the relative military power of the two sides. The fact is that this nation has a nuclear retaliatory force of such lethal power that an enemy move which brought it into play would be an act of self-destruction on his part. The United States...