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...Thai government's claim that it has insufficient funds and manpower to stop the piracy against the Vietnamese boat people [Nov. 9] is fallacious. Bangkok simply lacks the will to do anything about it. Perhaps it considers piracy an effective means to deter the flow of Vietnamese refugees into Thailand...
...sentiments at the seminars, like those in Western Europe, have been inflamed by President Reagan's musings on the possibility of fighting a limited nuclear war and Secretary of State Alexander Haig's suggestion that NATO could fire a nuclear warning shot to deter the Soviets from invading Europe...
...realistic disarmament is. I'm in Air Force ROTC and given the policies of the military and the way the military is oriented I don't see how total disarmament will happen anytime soon. There is a general belief that the stronger we are militarily, the more we deter Russia from stomping on us, and the better off we'll be. I think that is the position of the higher military leaders and of course Reagan and Alexander Haig. Those guys want more and more weapons and bigger and better ones. Therefore I don't think disarmament is a possibility...
...Guardian Angels patrol the subways and neighborhoods of 31 cities trying to deter violent crime through their presence rather than through force, Sliwa said. He opened a Boston chapter in May, and 45 Angels have already begun watching the local subways, wearing the distinctive red beret and t-shirt that Sliwa described as a "moving lollipop outfit...
...Weinberger, with whom he has clashed before. Haig was appearing before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to explain the Administration's $180 billion plan to upgrade the U.S. nuclear arsenal. He remarked that NATO contingency plans include the option "to fire a nuclear weapon for demonstrative purposes" to deter a massive conventional-force Soviet thrust into Europe. Haig did not say where this warning shot would be detonated. His point, mainly lost in the ensuing response among skittish European allies, was that the U.S. would attempt to contain any future European conflict at the lowest possible level. The following...