Word: launching
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...designed to threaten the residual missile force remaining after a Soviet first strike, thereby deterring the Russians from launching such a strike in the first place. However, since the Soviets could easily neutralize this threat by mobilizing their own land-based missiles, the MX would do little to enhance deterrence. It would be very destabilizing, though. White ostensibly mannufactured for defensive purposes, the MX would bring the U.S. closer to being able to launch a first-strike against the Soviet Union than it has ever been before. Such a move could only be viewed by the Soviets as aggressive...
...Communist leader's broadside had two goals: 1) to launch a direct ideological dialogue with church authorities, and 2) to improve the party's image with middle-class Catholics who might provide further gains in future elections. With 227 seats in the 630-seat Chamber of Deputies, the Communists are already formal partners in the six-party accord that supports Premier Giulio Andreotti's minority Christian Democratic government...
...dismayed the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the AFL-CIO, both of which send delegates to I.L.O. meetings.-Says AFL-CIO Boss George Meany: "I have had to sit in plenary sessions with the I.L.O. where they compliment the Director General on his wonderful report. Then they would launch an attack on the United States of America...
Limited counter-force targets Soviet missiles to give the U.S. a limited response to a limited Soviet first-strike against our missiles causing only minor American casualties. Under such circumstances, MX proponents fear that the Soviets would doubt our willingness to launch counter-value weapons, inviting a Soviet retaliation and assuring mutual destruction. According to the argument, a limited Soviet attack could only be deterred by U.S. readiness and capability to retaliate against the missiles remaining in the Soviet arsenal and against once-used silos to prevent reloading. Backers of the MX say the missile is needed for such...
...classic case of what Edmund Wilson called "the wound and the bow." From the suppurating wound of his domestic life, as un-healing as was the eagle-torn liver of Prometheus, he gathered the strength to draw the bow of craft, passion and insight and to launch an arrow of dramatic significance that is still in flight more than half a century after his death...