Word: disarmement
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Having got rid of Wessin y Wessin, the rebels clamored for the ouster of other loyalist officers. Rebel leaders said they would refuse to disarm unless "all the genocide military go-not just Wessin!" The Castroite 14th of June group was openly calling for rebels to keep their weapons, and planeloads of exiles were streaming back to Santo Domingo to participate in a "gigantic" rebel rally this week...
Morituri starts off promising something nautical but nice. Tough British Agent Trevor Howard smoothly snares German Deserter Marlon Brando into agreeing to a perilous bit of World War II secret agentry. He must find and disarm the demolition charges placed on a German freighter, so that in the event of Allied capture, the Germans will not be able to scuttle their precious rubber cargo. Equipped with forged Nazi credentials and the suavest German accent since Erich von Stroheim. Brando climbs aboard the freighter, captained by Yul Brynner, and loses no time in going on the prowl...
...typically compact language he explains: Three radically new elements are instrumental in determining the three major concepts of strategic theory, concepts that suggest the three responses so far worked out to the triple challenge of monster weapons, permanent alert, and annihilation of entire nations without the need first to disarm them. The first is deterrence, symbolic of the effort to substitute the threat of force for its actual application; the second is stability, replacing the obsolets notion of balance of power and designating the theoretical situation in which no nation would be tempted to make use of its weapons...
MOZART THE DRAMATIST, by Brigid Brophy. A brilliant interpretation written so gracefully as to disarm criticism of the author's heavily Freudian outlook...
MOZART THE DRAMATIST, by Brigid Brophy. A brilliant interpretation written so gracefully as to disarm criticism of the author's heavily Freudian outlook...