Word: patriotism
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Other proposed missile technology defenses would be far too costly to install in every city of every state--and there's no guarantee that missile technology will work. The example of the Patriot missile merely diverting a Scud into a U.S. Army base underlines the irrationality of SDI. Most nuclear missiles discharge their war-heads (and decoys) long before entering the range of ground-based missiles, making defense systems impotent in a low-altitude nuclear confrontations...
This glorified Patriot missile program would afford limited protection in case a renegade government or terrorist cell launched a nuclear missile. America could share the technology and its costs with U.S. allies...
...were actually impeded, the U.S., Britain and France could send helicopter gunships to escort the U.N. helicopters, and would perhaps put armed soldiers aboard the U.N. choppers as well. Last week the U.S. went so far as to move additional warplanes into strike positions in Turkey and to send Patriot missiles to Saudi Arabia. But for the moment, the parking-lot incident in the endless game of chicken that Saddam has been playing with U.N. inspectors had come...
...hard to believe that Gamsakhurdia could have dug such a hole for himself in a mere four months. When he engineered Georgia's declaration of independence while serving as chairman of the Georgian supreme soviet last & April, he was hailed as a patriot. In May, when he took 87% of the vote, becoming the republic's first democratically elected president, he was regarded as a modern-day St. George who had defeated the dragon of Soviet imperialism. Given Gamsakhurdia's reputation as a distinguished literary scholar and his activism on behalf of human rights, comparisons with Czechoslovakia's President Vaclav...
Marshal of the Soviet Union Sergei Fyodorovich Akhromeyev was my friend. His death last week by his own hand was a tragedy that mirrors the convulsions racking the Soviet Union. He was a communist, a patriot and a soldier, and my guess is that he would have listed his affiliations in that order. His entire life was spent in the service of the motherland and the party, beginning in 1940 when he enlisted in the army. World War II left an indelible stamp on him. Close to 80% of Soviet men born in 1923, the year of his birth...