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...March 1983 speech unveiling the scheme, he said he hoped the U.S. could erect an umbrella of impenetrable antimissile defenses over itself and its allies. By thus rendering an attacker's weapons impotent, the U.S. would not have to count on ballistic missiles and bombers to deter Soviet aggression or to retaliate against an attack. No longer would "crisis stability" between the superpowers have to be enshrined in a suicide pact...
...success of the government's economic programs has also given rise to a clutch of unprecedented problems. So many curious visitors want to witness the economic miracle of Shenzhen firsthand that the government has had to erect a metal fence, complete with patrol road and sweeping arc lights, along the length of the zone's 54-mile border. Workers in the cities, whose $40-a-month wage used to be twice as high as that of the average farmer, must now watch uneducated villagers take home $400 a month. Jealous, or "red-eyed," party cadres vent their resentment against prosperous...
Unfortunately a feasible ABM system remains a dream. It is the modern-day version of the French Maginot line--a large and expensive shield that will give us the illusion of safety, but will fail us should the final crisis ever come. Even the attempt to erect a ballistic missile defense will prove disastrous to national security. If we press ahead with Reagan's "star wars" concept, we will alienate our allies, spark a new arms race, and waste billions of dollars that could be better spent on conventional defense or social programs...
...issue "Behind Closed Doors") was too mild in her otherwise laudatory article criticizing the Pi Eta Club Newsletter which began "Before we get in any discussion about the amazing rounding of private parts some poor suspecting fat load is going to take this Saturday night by your huge and erect penis..." This is not simply sexist. This is "rapist," or "pro-rape" (I note that Ms. Idelson did make a passing reference to rape imagery). The link between violence and male sexuality, which is precisely the operative factor in rape, is sickeningly, terrifyingly obvious here. "A bevy of slobbering bovines...
Before we get in any discussion about the amazing pounding of private parts some poor suspecting fat load is going to take this Saturday night by your huge and erect penis, the officers would like to make some pertinent rules clears. After reminding Pi Eta members to get in those dues, the newsletter returns to a more detailed description of the upcoming "pigfest...