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...Fallows writes in the introduction. "Obviously there are connection between the two. The only reason a nation raises armies is to defend the interests its policy defines," he concedes, but then he sticks to examples like whether our nation wants to have a two-war capability or a one-and-a-half war potential. The real policy questions are different--what interests will the military defend, and in what way? And today's answers to those questions still seem much like the amoral ideas that got us into Vietnam...
Crimson sophomore Buck Logan almost did just that, fighting back after a relatively slow start to take second place one-and-a-half miles into the race...
...Eastern Association of Women's Rowing Colleges' championship regatta concluded on Lake Waramug in New Preston, conn., with the Radcliffe heavyweight oarswomen about one-and-a-half seats behind the strong Penn boat. Penn recorded a time of 4:53.5 over the 1500-meter course to Radcliffe...
...would be a kind of centrist Republican Party under a new name, leaving the official Republican Party to the far right. Says he: "This is a very, very unusual period of history, and that makes it an opportunity to strengthen the System. What we have now is a one-and-a-half party system. We need two strong centrist parties...
...Pentagon understands this as well as anyone; that's why it wants a Rapid Deployment Force of 100,000 men trained in the art of the brushfire war and the lightning intervention. But it has requested draft registration anyway under the influence of a doctrine it calls "the one-and-a-half war theory," tested in 1978 in the largest simulation of a world war ever. The computer assumed a global one-two punch from the Soviet Union: a move into some secondary theater of war--like, say, the Persian Gulf--pinning down America's most mobile and effective forces...