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...region would also have tactical nuclear weapons their disposal. If nuclear exchanges begin, it is difficult to see how the line can be drawn against moving to larger scale exchanges, ultimately ending with strategic weapons. In a region which has been so unstable in recent years, it seems the height of foolishness to race to new arms and to promises to provide sophisticated newweapons to countries with long standing enmities such as those which exist between Pakistan and India. In addition, the U.S. decision to play the "China card" by supplying militarily useable technologies to that country seems to bear...
...squads returned to the floor for the second half, the cagers had a 25 point deficit to make up. Crimson coach Carol Kleinfelder, discouraged with listless Harvard rebounding, decided inferior height must have been the cause and started her five tallest players. Though strategically questionable, Kleinfelder's plan proved a good choice and the cagers paced B.U. bucket for bucket most of the second half...
...many as 200 tourists. Few are ever visited by cruise ships. They are politically and socially tranquil, and virtually crime-free. As Belgian-born Bishop Antoine Demets said of Montserrat to TIME'S Georgia Harbison, "Here a family spirit reigns. All the mountains and valleys are of shoulder height...
...time since the height of the cold war has the cult of brute force been professed so openly." An editorial in the New York Times?'The Washington Post? In fact, the statement appeared last week in Pravda, which went on to denounce America's "unprecedented militarism" and "claims to worldwide supremacy." Adopting the time-proven tactic that the best defense is a strong offense, the Soviet press, radio and television conducted a nonstop rhetorical counterattack against mounting criticism in the U.S., Western Europe and the Muslim world of the U.S.S.R.'s invasion and conquest of Afghanistan...
...along the lower Thames have been raising their embankments. After a sudden flood in January 1928 killed 14 people, including four youngsters asleep in a Westminster basement, the walls along the Thames were elevated to more than 5 meters (17 ft.) above the mean water level. More recently, the height has been increased to nearly 6 meters (19 ft.). But even these towering embankments could not cope with an extreme combination of circumstances. While Thames tides normally do not exceed 4.6 meters (15 ft.), the level can be pushed far higher by sudden onslaughts of water...