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...million; a reduction from almost half the population to less than a fifth. He further contends, incontestably, given the urban concentration of American industry and assuming his previous statistics are accurate, that the nation's loss of productive capacity in a nuclear exchange would be reduced by a greater amount. He concludes that the ABM would make the difference between enormous though withstandable losses and the destruction of the United States as a coherent society...
...Assuming the CIA is equally efficient in discovering a nationwide deployment of an ABM system by the Soviets, we would not be subject, as General Johnson thinks, to "that Soviet nuclear blackmail we have avoided for the past twenty years." We would "lose" only several months. Given the much greater productive capacity of the U.S. economy, that is a risk we can easily afford to run; in fact, only the most picayune or the most hysterical alarmists would dignify it by calling it a risk...
...powerful lobbies they maintain, is of course the result of previous defense spending. By consistently allocating such a large proportion of our nation's resources to weapons of war, we have structurally distorted both our economy and our political system. The more money we give the defense contractors, the greater will be their power to demand future expenditures. And it is beginning to appear that the accelerating tendency implied by that analysis is coming into play with full force...
Brandeis traditionally has been the doormat of the Greater Boston League, but his year they are 2-2 for the season. In their last game, the judges edged Clark 4-3 behind the four-hit pitching of freshman Ed Weltman...
After dropping into a tie for seventh place in the Eastern Intercollegiate Baseball League last Weekend, Harvard's varsity nine turns its attention to two important Greater Boston League games this week. The Crimson meets Tufts at 3 p.m. today on Soldiers Field and travels to Brandeis tomorrow to challenge the Judges...