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This year the duel returns to Connecticut. On November 19 mid-Cambridge will become a ghost town for a day. It will be like a neutron bomb blast: the Yard and the Houses will remain standing, but temporarily devoid of human life. Friday lectures will be poorly attended, as everyone sweeps down to New Haven and a Saturday morning appointment with the Yale Bowl...
...would like to see the eventual collapse of the Managuan government, which has become increasingly totalitarian in its domestic policies, and increasingly unpopular. Certainly that is what the Sandinistas believe is the main Administration motive. Said Ramirez: "If he could do it, Reagan would finish us off with a neutron bomb. But he can't, so he's using the contras instead." For its part, the White House last week continued to emphasize that its policies are within the scope of congressional restrictions, in that the contras are clearly not strong enough to defeat the heavily armed Nicaraguan...
These French naval forces are assigned the mission, in case of war, of blocking Soviet access to the Mediterranean from bases in the Black Sea. The KGB is equally interested in the French development of a sophisticated, miniaturized neutron bomb and a new tactical nuclear missile called the Andes, which has a 250-mile range...
...couldn't get into those files with a neutron bomb," says Thomas Sexton, a staff assistant at the archives...
...that nuclear war would have "catastrophic consequences," the Warsaw Pact leaders urged the Western alliance to join with them in a "treaty on the mutual nonuse of military force and the preservation of peaceful relations." The nonaggression pact also called for a ban on nuclear testing, chemical warfare and neutron weapons...