Word: georgetown
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Edward N. Luttwak, a senior fellow at the Georgetown University Center for Strategic and International Studies, argues that every President becomes fully sensitized to the awesome power at his command through the military budget process. Virtually all spending calculations, explains Luttwak, are based on a weapon's destructive effects: how many millions would be killed, cities destroyed, regions contaminated. There is no way a President could succumb to reflexive nuclear revenge, even if he is surrounded by old cronies who, after a couple of bourbons, suggest it is time to "nuke 'em." From the man who carries...
...late President's close-knit clan gathered for a private ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery. Afterward, the family was joined by a larger group, 500 of J.F.K.'s former colleagues and friends at an invitation-only memorial Mass at his old parish church in Washington's Georgetown. Prominent among the absentees was Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, 54, who spent the day in Hyannisport, Mass., with the President's mother, Rose, 93. Also missing: John Kennedy Jr., 23, who is studying in India. Among those at the site of the eternal flame were Senator Edward Kennedy, 51, Eunice...
...Washington, D.C., Georgetown's Oct. 31 revel has become one of the capital's wildest annual events...
...Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick, 56, was the only serious alternative candidate. A former political science professor at Georgetown University, she was a longtime Democratic activist. Like her fellow neoconservatives, however, she was repelled by the dovish drift of the Democratic Party, which occurred as she was turning more resolutely antiCommunist. As a Reagan pet, she has had an unsual degree of influence in shaping policy. But as a prospective National Security Adviser, she had obvious drawbacks. In dealings with colleagues as well as adversaries, Kirkpatrick tends to be everything McFarlane is not: high-strung, argumentative, ideological, organizationally disheveled, and candid...
...imports reached 35.7%, or 5.97 million bbl. How would the nation fare today if Arab leaders deliberately turned off the tap, or if the fields were damaged, or if some other unpredictable trauma occurred? Many experts share the view of Henry Schuler, who directs energy and security studies at Georgetown University. Says he: "I don't think we're better...