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...contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself," cried Walt Whitman. The creation of a baby is full of paradoxes and illogicalities. The cost of raising a child to 18, approaching $100,000 in the U.S., according to one estimate, would deter any sensible
...Cuban exiles who washed up on South Florida's shores during the 1980 Mariel boatlift. Disillusioned with their new life in the U.S., they discount talk of prison terms as American propaganda. At present, Havana refuses to do the one thing State Department officials believe would deter potential sky bandits: extradite them back to the U.S. for prosecution. Cuba has done so only once, in 1980, and the two returned hijackers were sentenced to 40 years apiece in federal prison...
Talk of a reunited Germany has always frightened the Soviets, but that did not deter Kohl from raising the subject forthrightly. He defended the right of Germans to think about the peaceful reunification of West Germany and its Soviet-dominated counterpart in the future. "I told Mr. Andropov: 'What would you say as a Soviet patriot if Moscow were divided, if the Soviet Union were divided?' " Kohl reported. He also asked that the Soviet Union grant exit visas to an estimated 100,000 ethnic Germans who seek to emigrate to West Germany. In addition, Kohl risked offending...
Kahn was born in Bayonne, N.J., graduated from U.C.L.A. in 1945 and three years later joined the Rand Corp., the California think tank that helps the Pentagon develop defense strategies. He rejected the prevailing nuclear doctrine, Mutual Assured Destruction, which postulates that the devastation accompanying a nuclear exchange will deter the use of such weapons. Instead, he urged preparation for fighting limited nuclear wars...
...participating" because they assail NATO's plans to install U.S. intermediate-range missiles in Western Europe and "entirely ignore" the deployment of Soviet missiles that prompted those plans. He is equally forceful in portraying as highly dangerous NATO'S strategy of relying on tactical nuclear weapons to deter Communist aggression in Europe. In Sakharov's view, the firing of a single nuclear weapon of any size anywhere would be all too likely to lead to all-out war. He urges a big Western buildup in conventional arms to offset present Soviet superiority and end the West...