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Logic, unfortunately, does not always dictate strategic decisions. Irrational as the fear of a Soviet surprise attack may be, psychological and political reasons alone may push the the U.S. into proceeding with a new mobile missile. As one congressional expert put it, "You can't debate survivability for a decade and then not do anything." It is unlikely that the Senate would ratify a Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty that allowed the Soviets mobile missiles unless the U.S. first decided to acquire a comparable system...
...mayors have deserted their posts after receiving death threats from terrorists. In the area around Huancayo, the capital of Peru's breadbasket department of Junin, Sendero Luminoso is locked in a battle for dominance with the Cuban-oriented M.R.T.A. rebels. The city, says Raul Gonzalez, a sociologist and expert on the Sendero Luminoso, "is now the critical spot to Sendero's future." From there, the Shining Path, which already controls at least one-third of the countryside, intends to take Lima, only 120 miles away, by encircling it and cutting it off from the rest of the country...
Workingwomen's resentment of the two-track notion has burst into the open, sparked by a management expert's proposal to introduce a formal basis for such a discriminatory system. Put forth by author Felice Schwartz in an article in the January-February issue of the Harvard Business Review (title: "Management Women and the New Facts of Life"), the plan suggests relegating most working mothers to a gentle career path, which wags have dubbed the Mommy Track. Only women willing to set aside family considerations would be singled out for the fast lane to the executive suite. The startling idea...
Putnam's past scholarship should also help him consolidate the curriculum and guide the school in a more academic direction. Putnam is a renowned expert on political elites and Italian regional politics. His expertise landed him a job on the National Security Council during the Carter Administration...
...Gomez-Ibarez, an expert in light-rail transit, said the new line would probably not ease the city's traffic problems...