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Charlie, who could be of greater strategic value than the neutron bomb. After torturing and killing Vicky, the Shop kidnaps Charlie, who is rescued by her father's "push." Thereafter, and for most of the book, Andy and Charlie flee through the Northeast, pursued by a brutal bunch of Shopworkers who anticipate the fugitives' every move. While Andy's psychic powers fade, Charlie's grow ever more explosive- and repulsive...
...campaigned vigorously in 1976 to trim the Pentagon budget, and early in his Administration boasted of cutting some $7 billion from the defense spending urged by Ford in his last year in office. As Reagan charges, Carter canceled such key weapons programs as the B-l bomber and the neutron warhead. In rebuttal, Carter claims that the B-l was obsolete and that his Administration is considering developing a more effective manned bomber...
When the President moved into foreign policy there was a similar inability to view the entire world and calculate actions on a broad strategic canvas. A member of the National Security Council marveled at Carter conducting the discussions about manufacturing and deploying the neutron bomb. "It was out of a high school civics lesson," this man reported. "It was viewed in terms of sovereign countries, a bunch of equals deciding on a policy. It never seemed to occur to Carter that he was the leader and should make the decision in the free world's interest...
...that "of all cultural adjustments, the notion of an end to progress seems the most difficult for Americans to accept." What is progress? The neutron bomb, Three Mile Island, Love Canal, Miami? Perhaps the real American myth is believing that progress will eventually solve our cultural, economic and spiritual problems...
...this reason, many military experts see the neutron weapon as a deterrent to large concentrations of Soviet bloc tanks in Eastern Europe, which currently outnumber NATO forces by 27,900 to 11,000. Invading tanks approaching a Western European city could be stopped without destroying the city itself, possibly saving the lives of thousands of civilians...