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...majority cannot resist the temptation to wag its finger at the selection of Governor Dukakis as the Class Day speaker. Their dissatisfaction apparently stems from nothing more than an overwhelming desire to be dissatisfied...
Tensions escalate. The military goes on alert. A Soviet-American showdown seems probable. When a nuclear attack upon the U.S. is considered imminent, authority to use nuclear weapons is automatically "predelegated" to various military commanders. For a nation that mistakenly assumes only the President's finger is ever on the button, this little-known fact will come as a disconcerting discovery. In his first novel, State Scarlet (Putnam; $18.95), David Aaron, a top staffer at the National Security Council during the Carter Administration, uses fiction to show how the nation's command, control and communications system, known...
...feel it is far more important to find ways to reshape the military strategies of both nations to make it less likely that a nuclear crisis will spin out of control. If either nation feels that its command structure is vulnerable, it is more likely to get an itchy finger on its button. One way to prevent this is to establish crisis-control centers to prevent misunderstandings. Another is for the U.S. to make its C 3 system more survivable -- and to avoid causing the Soviet command to feel vulnerable -- so that there would be less pressure on either side...
...verdict that will be a broad, stinging indictment of the recent tendency to delegate too much - authority. But they do not anticipate any findings that will contradict Shamir's repeated contention that the Pollard affair was a "rogue" operation. "I don't think it will point a finger at the political leadership, but it will point to a very disorganized system that permitted this operation in the first place," says a Shamir aide. "It will point to a lack of upper- level control...
...chair. "Aw, come on," he chided, "don't look at it as a zero- sum game. We want people to invest in America." She listened sullenly as he tried to explain his vision of an unfettered free market. "Well, you think about it," she interrupted, shaking her finger. He masked his exasperation with an affectionate pat on the back. "I will," he promised, "but you think about...