Word: needed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...myriad problems and risks posed by the nuclear age, none weighs so heavily on the strategist, politician and scientist as the need to anticipate the military balance five and ten years hence. Such foresight is a necessity because of the long lead time required to perfect weapons systems. The difficulty of reading the tarot cards of Atomic Age technology and rival nations' intentions is at the heart of the anti-ballistic-missile dispute...
...technology is of little value, is untested and untestable and is not worth the investment; moreover, it can be easily circumvented by the other side and, instead of bringing security, might well accelerate the arms race. Probably the document's key argument is that there is no compelling need to deploy the ABM -for now at least-whether it would work...
...impeached, but on such blatantly political grounds that he was acquitted. Three years ago, it was disclosed that Justice William O. Douglas was receiving $12,000 a year in fees from a foundation linked to Las Vegas gambling interests. However, no one connected with the foundation was in immediate need of highly placed connections, as Wolfson and his associates were...
...across the canal?and it would be slaughtered. The reason is that the Russians, anxious to avert a fourth round of the war, have carefully not supplied Nasser with the wherewithal for an offensive strike: the amphibious transports, armored personnel carriers and four-wheel-drive trucks that he would need in order to cross the Sinai. Underscoring their concern that the artillery battles might get out of hand, the Soviets last week dispatched a note to Cairo declaring that the cease-fire should be "strictly carried...
...TREATIES. Premier Meir is more vocal than her predecessor, Levi Eshkol, about the need for bilateral talks and a formal treaty as the only means to a lasting peace. Taking Arab intransigence into account, the U.S. is pressing Israel to accept another kind of diplomatic solution. Specifically, the U.S. proposes a declaration of a state of peace, partly inspired by one that in 1956 formalized the end of the Russo-Japanese World War II hostilities. Under such a declaration, the Middle East combatants would separately declare to the United Nations that they were at peace again...