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...claim that the conventional balance is tilted heavily against them. "Every year," says NATO Supreme Commander General Bernard Rogers, "we find the gap continues to widen." Rogers warns that "within days" of a Warsaw Pact invasion, he would be forced to seek permission to use tactical nuclear weapons to halt an otherwise unstoppable advance. Once NATO crossed that threshold, however, escalation to full-scale nuclear war might be impossible to stop. The grim joke in NATO military circles is that its defense strategy consists of "fighting like hell for three days and then blowing up the world...
...this madcap adventure came to a brutal halt right before spring break--the day we received our housing assignments. I read the notice on my doorstep. It said I had been assigned to Cabot House for the next three years or 30,000 miles of shuttle bus rides, whichever came first...
...tragedy served as a reminder that the speeches in the House of Assembly are not some dry debating match but deal with deeply emotional issues that can and do cost lives. The irony of the Conservative challenge is that even though the reform process has shuddered to a halt and there is no prospect of negotiations with black leaders, Botha's image might be boosted by the astonishing confrontation in Parliament, where the Nationalist government is being denounced as dangerously liberal...
Secretary of State George P. Shultz asked the Chinese on a trip to Beijing in March to halt weapons shipments to Iran. He reiterated the appeal to a visiting Chinese military delegation here last week...
...senior cleric from Qum, as the formal successor, Khomeini has yet to approve the recommendation. Western diplomats say Rafsanjani has the political ability to outmaneuver Montazeri. Regardless of who the next Iranian leader will be, it is not expected that he will change Khomeini's policies or halt the war. One Iranian shrugged and recalled an old saying: "The first hundred years are the hardest...