Word: longer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...diminishing number of dissenters, at least in Washington. There are some, like Senator Hart, who continue to argue that the Soviet threat has been exaggerated and that the Pentagon might not need all the money it has requested. Among most officials and experts, however, the debate is no longer whether to boost defense spending but how much and in what...
...thus some of its ability to deter Soviet aggression. Would U.S. leaders really defend Western Europe by launching a nuclear strike against the U.S.S.R. if that could trigger a devastating Soviet counterstrike at New York or Los Angeles? The question echoes more loudly now that the U.S. no longer boasts strategic superiority. As Kissinger put it in Brussels, "It is absurd to base the strategy of the West on the credibility of the threat of mutual suicide." With U.S. and Soviet strategic nuclear forces tending to cancel each other out, Washington needs adequate nonatomic forces to counter threats that could...
...military is no longer going to win the budget game through image and authority. The brass are going to win it by knowing their stuff and knowing how to present...
...Remember that I have known you and loved you and Chicago longer." Indeed, Byrne got her start in Chicago politics as a campaign organizer for John Kennedy in 1960. Her office, in fact, is decorated with three photos of J.F.K. and one of Robert Kennedy. She does not display a picture of Jimmy Carter...
...established relations with Peking openly criticized China's human rights practices. It remains to be seen whether tough penal ties will squelch the reforming zeal of Chi na's small but active democratic move ment. Predicted one of Wei's colleagues at Tansuo last week: "The longer the sentence they give him, the more unseen trou ble there will be in the future...