Word: deters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...incident cast a further shadow over claims of precision bombing, most recently heard regarding the raids on Hanoi, where American planes have hit the French consulate and the Bach Mai Hospital. Still, apparently nothing will deter the US. bombardiers from their appointed rounds. Said one military spokesman: "There will be mistakes from time to time, just like the mistake of the L-1011 going down in the Everglades. People still fly commercial airplanes; we will continue to bomb...
Younger women notables include Naomi Savage and Judy Deter Savage's "St. Brigid Passion Week becomes a spiral of hide and seek with a black robed, virgin-like bust appearing in whole and in cut sections against greyish-white rectangular backgrounds that overlap and revolve around the center. She takes a negative and pasts up a college of this repeated image. For her, this black shape becomes an icon, indestructible, despite efforts to cut it up and change its positions...
McGovern becomes impatient with the complex theories of what might be needed to fight a nuclear war, arguing that there are no effective defenses and that once such a war starts, the choice between "calamity and catastrophe" is meaningless. The point is to deter a nuclear exchange, and McGovern insists that beyond a minimum, the number of missiles that opposing sides have is irrelevant. The U.S. has far more warheads than the 200 he figures are necessary to destroy the limited targets that would have to be attacked to render either China or Russia helpless...
...remedies that owed more to folklore than pharmacopoeia. Some believed in trepanning, or opening the skull, to let out the attacking demons. Others prescribed elixirs of cow's brain and goat dung. American Indians used beaver testes, a sounder idea than it seems. The preparation has since been deter mined to contain a salicylate similar to regular aspirin...
...Soviet Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev-represents an important milestone in U.S.-Soviet relations and reflects a long-term change in Washington's policy. Where once the U.S. sought to maintain overall nuclear superiority, Washington has now settled for what Nixon has called "sufficiency" -that is, enough arms to deter any Russian attack by promising a devastating retaliatory strike...