Word: numbers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...strategic weapon. On the other hand, Smith said, an amendment could specify "that the U.S. has the prerogative of developing a similar bomber without having to count it against our total of strategic launchers. That's not a killer amendment, and it is one that presumably a number of the 41 undecided Senators might consider in beating an independent path to ratification...
...continues to favor a "shell game," in which the 200 missiles would be randomly shifted by truck at night among 4,000 silos. One difficulty is that this plan would make it hard for the Soviets to verify, as SALT requires, that the U.S. is not cheating on the number of missiles actually in the holes. Also, if the Soviets find which holes contain missiles and then launch an attack, it would take too long to move the missiles...
...party members, particularly among the independents who helped elect him, have paid off. G.O.P. membership is up about 1,500 in the first five months of 1979, and party contributions are expected to increase $100,000 over previously projected figures for the year. "Dreyfus has brought in a large number of independents who were dissatisfied with the old tweedledum and tweedledee routine," says Milwaukee Sociologist Wayne Youngquist...
...Vatican at a rate normally seen only in once-a-generation Holy Years. Vendors have sold more photos of John Paul since October than they did of Paul VI during his 15 years as Pope. Priests who hear confessions in St. Peter's have encountered five times the number of penitents...
...traced back to a slave sold by his family nearly a century earlier. Stingo takes a room in a Brooklyn boardinghouse and soon be comes involved with two other tenants: Nathan Landau, an American Jew, and Sophie Zawistowska, a Polish Gentile who bears on her arm a tattooed number from Auschwitz. Sophie is Nathan's lover, even though he flies into periodic rages and beats her. Stingo falls instantly in love with Sophie and becomes, against his own self-warnings, a "hapless supernumerary in some tortured melodrama...