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...current debate is not about the desirability of nuclear war," says Gray. "It is about the best means of deterring war. I believe in damage-limitation and in a war-fighting strategy. That requires?in addition to appropriate offensive forces???air defense, missile defense and civil defense. If American casualties could, by these methods, be held to 20 million, that would be very horrible, but it is damage from which we could recover. This posture would make the Soviets take our deterrence more seriously...
...lack of necessity to watch costs would be inflationary in any business. In health care it has been catastrophically inflationary, because powerful underlying forces???economic, psychological and technical?would be working to drive up bills even if a determined effort were made to hold them down. Among these forces...
...which the Government is pressuring U.S. universities, corporations and other institutions to provide more jobs and better pay for millions of blacks, other minorities and women. Despite a flurry of protest demonstrations by militants, most observers praised the court for a cautious but astute effort at reconciling conflicting forces???but they also foresaw many future conflicts in the actual carrying out of the court's new edict...
...Stearns, who was sitting in the trailer outside, warned Hart on the floor that the count looked uncomfortably close. With that, McGovern's aides began shaving their total, pulling votes away from the women's position in order to make their challenge lose by a sufficient margin. Humphrey's forces???and some TV commentators?at first read the tallies as an indication that McGovern was in serious trouble. From the floor...
...that any real or apparent concession is welcomed with wonder and relief; but the Jews are expected to be more reasonable, so that any intransigence on their part is regarded with special impatience. Moreover, Israel is a Western, industrial power and its precise and powerful strikes against guerrilla forces???no matter how much modern equipment the Arab nations have received from Russia?somehow make the struggle seem unequal...