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...ANOTHER DIMENSION of arms race psychology is coming under expert scrutiny: the attitudes of policy makers who direct the weapons build-up and plan to fight nuclear war. Mack divides military planners into two psychological categories--"unthinkables" and "thinkables." "Thinkables, the psychiatrist believes, have an emotional "hold" on nuclear war. They respond to their terror of atomic weapons by thinking about war in conventional terms of winning and losing--they are thus ensured in "the unending process of seeking security through more arms." Frank adds that military men have achieved a psychological assimilation" of the new instruments of mass destruction...
...yesterday local expert on South Africa said that any distinctions between different loans to South Africa are "forced." Making so-called humanitarian loans "is like saying if the Nazis are going to bump off the Jews, let's make it a little more comfortable," said Kenneth N. Carstens, head of the Cambridge-based International Defense and Aid Fund for Southern Africa...
...their discussions last week, council members raised the possibility of sample testing voter instructions on a small group of citizens or hiring expert legal and psychological consultants...
...hardest of hard-liners in the Reagan Administration has been keeping one of the lowest of profiles. He is Richard Pipes, 58, a Polish-born historian on leave from Harvard University, who has served since the Inauguration as the chief expert on Soviet affairs for the National Security Council staff. Before joining the Government, he was an outspoken, highly controversial critic of détente and a leader of the Committee on the Present Danger, a private lobbying group that campaigned against SALT II and in favor of larger defense budgets. Partly because of his reputation for vociferous anti-Sovietism...
...spatters tells much about the location and position of a person Involved in a crime and thus may dispute a defendant's version of what happened. Blood that travels at an angle, for example, leaves an elliptical stain. Consultant Herbert Leon MacDonell, 53, of Corning, N.Y., the leading expert, is now sought out in more than 100 homicide cases a year. At the trial of Jean Harris last year he tried to persuade the jury-unsuccessfully-that blood marks jibed with Harris' claim that the shooting of Dr. Herman Tarnower occurred accidentally during a struggle...