Word: musts
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...even madness must have its method. And themethod of this Crimson squad, the best in schoolhistory, was simple: control the game...
...could be the most momentous national-security decision that George Bush ever makes. In early April the President must choose a multibillion-dollar plan for modernizing the nation's land-based intercontinental ballistic missiles. Though dozens of basing modes and several new missiles have been considered, only two expensive mobile missile systems are really in the running: the rail-carried, multiwarhead MX and the truck-transported, single- warhead Midgetman. Bush's wisest course might be to deploy neither...
...President's deliberations will be guided by the concept that has been the basis of U.S. nuclear deterrence for more than 30 years: that enough American weapons must survive a Soviet surprise attack to guarantee a devastating retaliatory strike. Pursuing that strategy, the U.S. has built a formidable triad of strategic nuclear forces: land-based ICBMs in silos, sea- based missiles aboard submarines, and nuclear bombs carried by airplanes. But over the years, the increased accuracy of Soviet ICBMs has gradually threatened the land-based leg of the triad, which consists of 450 Minuteman IIs, each carrying a single warhead...
...choice between the two missiles must take into account the projected overall ceiling of 4,900 land- and sea-based ballistic-missile warheads that has been set in the START negotiations. With smaller numbers of warheads on both sides, there is a strategic advantage in single-warhead missiles like Midgetman. By dispersing its quota of warheads on a larger number of Midgetman missiles instead of concentrating it on a smaller number of MX's, the U.S. could greatly complicate a Soviet first strike...
Like all other Administrations since 1967, the new leadership in Washington believes that Israel must at some point trade some of the West Bank for peace. The U.S. opened a dialogue with the P.L.O. last year because it hoped the organization was redefining the first two words of its name: the "Palestine" to be "liberated" is on the West Bank; it does not include pre-1967 Israel. As part of an eventual agreement, the U.S. is looking for reciprocal territorial concessions by Israel...