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...time, our world can be reduced to a frozen radioactive desert strewn with the corpses of all species. Instead of working to reduce the possibility of a nuclear end, Reagan has increased the likelihood of that end. He has done his atmost to alienate us from not only the Soviet leadership, but its citizens as well. He has spent three years stalling the arms control talks. And he has launched us on a massive nuclear build-up, including research and development of nuclear arsenals in space...
...important factor working against House Republicans is the scant likelihood that they will assume majority status within the next three or four elections, observers...
...government has announced that a model of the project will be put on public view at an exposition in April. The model may give Parisians the impression of being consulted about changes in their revered museum, but in fact there is little likelihood that Mitterrand will reconsider his go-ahead for the plan. French Presidents, like kings and emperors before them, frequently exercise their power on behalf of the greater glory of Paris (and thereby their own image). Mitterrand seems clearly determined to follow in the tradition, pyramid and all. Says Emile Biasini, the civil servant who headed Mitterrand...
...large scale nuclear attack launched against either the U.S. or the U.S.S.R. would devastate the victim nation killing as many as a hundred million people and crippling the national economy. Haunted by the specter of such destruction governments in both nations pursue policies that they believe will minimize the likelihood of all out nuclear conflict though debate rages on the methods there is a consensus as to the common goals...
...likelihood of youngsters emerging socially maladjusted as a result of such acceleration is uncertain. One participant who received his bachelors' degree from Johns Hopkins at 18 and is currently a professor at Northwestern told The Washington Post he experienced no real difficulties adjusting. Yet even if such programs are innocuous the National Council of Teachers--fearful of the "hurried child syndrome"--has publicly denounced the Hopkins experiment. And Anrig has also opposed CTY, wary that the net benefit students receive from the test might not compensate for the anxiety it produces...