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...achieved and Russia pushes ahead on arms development, it could obliterate 90% of America's stationary land-based missile force by the end of this decade. This would leave the U.S. with only SLBMs, strategic bombers and a handful of the land-based missiles-not enough force to knock out Russia's nuclear reserves. The U.S. would then be faced with an agonizing choice: either to strike back at Soviet population centers while knowing that Moscow retained the ability to counterstrike at U.S. cities, or to make major concessions to the Soviets and avoid further endangering American civilians...
...military forces and installations, including hardened missile sites, without also obliterating population centers (TIME cover, Feb. 11). Opponents of the new policy, led by Senator Mclntyre, argued that Russia will consider the missile improvements an offensive development that will enable the U.S. to launch a limited first strike and knock out Russian missiles, thereby leaving the Soviets unable to launch a second in retaliation. The Russians will undoubtedly try to match the advances, thus triggering yet another escalation in the arms race. Warns Retired Rear Admiral Gene La Rocque, director of the Center for Defense Information: "If both sides have...
...school." O'Toole says it is important that the faculty, in turn, be easily accessible to the students. "What Northeastern does for a student is incredible," he says. "In my day at Harvard Law School, a student had to have something pretty serious in mind to knock on a professor's door. Law school was the type of experience evoked by The Paper Chase. I imagine things have loosened up a little since I went there, but here things are really different. For instance, in my Torts class, I put up a list of people who've had trouble with...
...Mitchell went in, that might knock that whole week into a cocked...
Summoning Ziegler to join the conversation, the President resumes his musings over what sort of public statement he could issue that would "knock true...