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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...York City subway is cold, and spooky with shadows. Water drips from the vaulted ceiling into small pools beside the tracks below. At one end the platform a rusting steel bridge leads to the street elevator. It is past midnight. A well-dressed man walks nervously up and down, a few steps at a time, waiting for a train. He knows he is a target and is plainly scared. The elevator descends. The man sees six teen-age blacks sweeping toward him like a pack of wolves. First they literally sniff him up and down, then they urinate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In New York: The Magnificent 13 | 5/7/1979 | See Source »

Harvard first offered a post to Moroz, who has spent all but nine months of the past 14 years in Soviet prisons for anti-government activities, during his 20-week protest hunger strike in 1974, and repeated it yearly since then...

Author: By James G. Hershberg, | Title: Moroz, Freed Dissident, Accepts Institute Position | 5/4/1979 | See Source »

...interpretation. The current budget is higher than any other period of U..S. history excepting World War II, which approached $300 billion yearly (in constant 1978 dollars) and Vietnam which peaked at about $170 billion (in 1978 dollars). It is higher now than during the Korean War and the past fifty years of relative peace. We are on a rising slope of military spending, with official projections of $178 billion...

Author: By Paul Walker, | Title: The Myths of Defense | 5/4/1979 | See Source »

Several years ago, Henry Kissinger exclaimed: "In God's name, what is military superiority?" He was pointing out the inadequacy of presuming Soviet "superiority" from budgetary comparisons. Such conclusions overlook not only methodological problems, but also two other important issues: perceived foreign threats and past military spending...

Author: By Paul Walker, | Title: The Myths of Defense | 5/4/1979 | See Source »

These seven myths point up a number of paradoxes in U.S. military policy. This country has experienced over 30 years of relative peacetime, yet spends more today on preparation for war than during any past era except for the World War II and Vietnam years. We negotiate strategic arms limitations, yet deploy newer, potentially destabilizing nuclear weapons. We negotiate arms limitations in Europe, yet build up U.S. forces in NATO. We state that new precision-guided, highly accurate technologies are "revolutionizing" the battlefield, yet request funding for increasingly vulnerable, cost-ineffective weapon platforms such as aircraft carriers. And the federal...

Author: By Paul Walker, | Title: The Myths of Defense | 5/4/1979 | See Source »

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