Word: globe
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...historical dynamics behind each actor's position, followed by a much longer slap at American policy. We are told that the Cuban Missile Crisiy "probably contributed to the Soviets' decision to embark on the sustained accumulation of every category of weaponry: conventional and nuclear, battle-field range and globe-spanning, tanks, aircraft, surface ships, submarines, and most of all, rockets." We are told that SALT I and II tended to codify the trends in each side's weapon inventory--for the Soviets' development of heavy, land-based, multiple warhead intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs): for the U.S., reliance on a strategic...
...kind of world-view, the kinds of beliefs" which develop in such a world. One of the students at Brown who dreamed up the referendum believed "the idea was to equate nuclear arms with suicide and convince people they shouldn't tolerate either," according to the Boston Globe. There is as little reason to doubt his motives as there is reason to doubt that nuclear weapons will be with us until they end our world. But arguing that society should not tolerate nuclear arms is, in effect, arguing that physics should be uninvented. The fusion bomb is non-returnable...
Rich and Green apparently remain ensconced in their modern, blue-glass headquarters in the lakeside town of Zug (pop. 22,000). There the pair are regarded by some natives as folk heroes rather than accused felons. But it will take a long time to rebuild Marc Rich's globe-straddling commodities business. Many customers have reportedly shied away, as have some of the firm's skilled traders! Said one departed employee: "This company has gone through hell." Not to mention having just given up nearly $200 million...
...with international terrorism are well known. But nevertheless, it subscribes to the view, especially just after a terrorist attack, that Something Must Be Done. This usually means tinkering about with the constitution, erecting new "forums," adding an "Irish dimension," or initiating what James Prior called "rolling devolution." The Boston Globe said just this: ignore the IRA, but get on with negotiating a "solution." It sounds too obviously reasonable to be true. How could anyone possibly disagree...
Second: Peace, good tickle-brain, thinkest thou the brawny lacketh brain? To denote the 50th anniversary of the Old Globe Theater in San Diego, good Master Steve Garvey of the San Diego Padres, and his most puissant teammate, Master Tony Gwynn, are posing for a prankish publicity poster to help the theater. Sirrah, they are patrons both...