Word: forded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...would such a war start? Most experts now dismiss the once fashionable "bolt-out-of-the-blue" scenario. William Hyland, a longtime strategic specialist for the Nixon, Ford and Carter administrations and now a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, fears that World War III might begin not as World War II did, with a Nazi blitzkrieg in the West and a Japanese sneak attack in the East, but as World War I did, with a combination of bumbling, inadvertence, events getting out of control and just plain bad luck. Says he: "If there is ever...
About three miles from the epicenter, the symphony audience of 2,000 at Ford Auditorium live for several seconds longer. Indoors, the music lovers are puzzled by the sudden heat. Their bewilderment is fleeting: the blast wave arrives just as the brightness of the mile-wide fireball peaks. Those who do not die beneath collapsing walls are probably killed by rocketing shards of wood and glass...
...Gerald Ford and Leonid Brezhnev once held each other's hands in the back seat of the Soviet leader's limousine as they pledged their personal commitments to maintain peace. To this day, Ford does not think that Brezhnev, no matter how great the Soviet missile advantage may be, is capable of marching into the Kremlin's command center and launching Armageddon. Ford obviously was not. "You won't do that because you are a human being," he said last week. His former Secretary of Defense James Schlesinger finds it "very dubious" that either...
Coach George Ford's connections in his homeland gave the team a $600-per person package deal, $300 of which will be footed by the fruits of the team's fundraising efforts...
...positive effect on the progress of Blacks in South Africa. "On the contrary," he says, "there is a great deal of evidence pointing to the corporations being interested in maintaining the apartheid system." He points out that when Black workers went on strike recently at General Motors and Ford factories, the management called in police to arrest the union leaders. "Where is this purported commitment to buck the system, to help the Blacks?" he asks Discounting improvements in material wealth for Blacks effected by some corporations, he says. "It doesn't matter what you pay us in wages. We want...