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...positions within the national security apparatus. Frank Carlucci, deputy secretary of defense, says flatly: "I think we need to have a warfighting capability (In nuclear arms)." Eugene V. Rotow, a veteran hard-liner who is now director of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, expresses views that lend an Orwellian tone to his job little. "We are." he declared on June 1, 1976, "in a pre-war and not a postwar world." So it should come as no surprise that the administration's defense program calls for building 17,000 new nuclear weapons--in addition...
...next, the wind will swivel around out of Canada to bring down a "blue Norther," a deep, dry blast of almost metaphysical cold. "There's nothing between here and the North Pole but a barbed-wire fence," they tell themselves in that Texas way that can lend defiant self-congratulation to the disastrous or the unavoidable. "And the fence blew down...
Whether Warsaw is defaulted or continues to pay only interest on its debt, the Polish situation has already had a major impact on Western lending to Eastern Europe. The Communist bloc as a whole owes the West some $70 billion. Aside from extending credit for the Soviet natural gas pipeline, Western lenders have virtually stopped making new loans. That will set back plans to modernize agriculture and other obsolete economic sectors. Said a European banker who refused to lend more money to East Germany: "I told them that I was sorry and hoped to do business with them again...
...that was other than ruthlessly candid. Lesser undergrads and their mentors, however, have been known to connive at contriving letters that lout the student in "the most positive light possible." The "moral dishonestly" you so properly condemn begin close to home, and some small acknowledgement of that fact would lend grace to you righteousness. E. L. Pattullo Director, Center for the Behavioral Sciences
...strengthening Pakistan's northern border with Soviet-controlled Afghanistan, the deal includes the aircraft that would enhance delivery capability for the atomic bomb that the Pakistanis are currently developing. Beyond simply antagonizing Pakistan's nuclear neighbor, India, the deal would make it that much easier for General Zia to lend nuclear weapons to some of his close Arab allies, like Iraq, if they were in a pinch...