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LOGOS: Don't let it happen again. Vorverständnis is one of my favorites. It means presupposition. Wissenschaft is far better than saying simply discipline or science, and anxiety sounds much deeper if you say Angst. If you grow weary of German, there is always Greek-almost everyone has seen Never on Sunday-with such splendid specimens as kerygma (message of the Scriptures) and agape (divine love...
What would happen if the MIGs suddenly swarmed aloft in numbers and became more aggressive? "We would simply have to do more of what we are doing now," shrugged one Air Force spokesman in Saigon. "We are not up there chasing MIGs. We are trying to put bombs on targets." So far, those targets have not included MIG airfields themselves, since Washington does not yet consider them worth the risk of enlarging the war. But if air opposition reached the point where U.S. planes were constantly forced to jettison their bombloads in order to defend themselves before reaching their targets...
Providing an Answer. By far the most important accomplishment of the new constitution, however, is that it provides an answer for the first time to the question that has plagued Spain ever since the civil war: What will happen when Franco dies? As before, his regime will have to choose between a king (most probably Don Juan de Borbón y Battenberg, 53, the liberal-minded pretender to the Spanish throne) and a regent (favored by antimonarchists as a device to turn Spain into a republic). But the new constitution provides some guarantee that the death of Franco...
...have some friends this week who found certainty-their obituaries were published in your papers." And for all its faults, the draft sure beats the way "George Washington had to spend most of his time looking for men-he had to arrange his schedule of battle on who might happen to be in town at that particular time...
...every military," Meselson says, "who want to run the whole gamut of weapons." Having non-lethal weapons would not make war less lethal, he asserts. "It is a ridiculous assumption that giving field commanders weapons that don't need to kill means the commanders will not kill. What will happen is that non-lethal weapons will be used in conjunction with killers...