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Despite all the attention paid to strategic weapons, experts are nearly unanimous that the U.S. would be making a dangerous error if it continued concentrating as much as it has on the nuclear balance. As long ago as the mid-1960s, when targets in the U.S. first became vulnerable to Soviet ICBMS, the threat of massive nuclear retaliation lost some of its credibility, and thus some of its ability to deter Soviet aggression. Would U.S. leaders really defend Western Europe by launching a nuclear strike against the U.S.S.R. if that could trigger a devastating Soviet counterstrike at New York...
...investigating reports that Sindona arranged for his own kidnaping by young immigrants connected with gangsters in Sicily, and then was double-crossed. In addition, the investigators are looking into reports that the mobsters held him somewhere in eastern Long Island and released him only after members of his family paid them an undisclosed bonus. The Sindona case is also being investigated in Italy, where police have arrested two brothers, Rosario and Vincenzo Spatola, both Sicilian contractors, for complicity in the financier's disappearance...
Those rough workouts paid off quickly as Eichner became the number three runner on an undefeated, state champion cross country squad...
...government's failure to respond quickly to the home heating oil crisis dramatically points up the dangers of a piecemeal approach to the broader energy crisis. In addition to a comprehensive plan to ease the crisis on the supply side of the energy equation, immediate attention must be paid to easing American demand...
...women-all recently separated or divorced-surveyed by Sociologist Graham Spanier, more than a third said they had cheated during marriage (38% males, 37% females). But a much higher percentage of the straying women said they found their adventures very satisfactory (57% to the males' 34%). The women paid the price for being satisfied; they reported almost twice as much guilt as men. Spanier says that might prove one of two things: either women express their sexual needs better, or "they may tend to label relationships with greater intensity." Translation of option two: women may make too much...