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Reagan faces no military issue more important, or more fraught with peril and charged with controversy. Already, the decision may be 90% made in the President's mind as events in the Dr. Strangelove world of nukes and launchers seem to be moving toward a final shape that has stunned the Pentagon, the industrial complex that builds the military's hardware and the defense experts of Congress. Subterranean shock waves came last week from the secret and cheerless Room 31074 in the Pentagon. There Richard D. DeLauer, Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering, revealed...
...getting clear the boat, the only boat left us, with which we could expect to escape. We succeeded in getting her out without injury, although the ship was waterlogged and fast falling upon her side. In the meantime the steward had twice entered the cabin and at his peril had brought out the trunks of the Captain and mate and also two quadrants and two of Bowdiches Practical Navigators. These, with the two compasses taken from the binnacle, was all that we had an opportunity of getting into the boat, and get in ourselves, when the ship capsized, with...
There was both peril and promise in that offer. The Soviets are all but paranoid about the Chinese, with whom they share a 4,100-mile border. To the Kremlin, Haig's trip was one more proof that virtually every policy move by the new Administration is dictated by its anti-Soviet stance. The announcement of the arms sale, no matter how small, added to tensions. In Moscow, Georgi Arbatov, director of the Soviet Institute for the Study of the U.S.A. and Canada, told TIME Diplomatic Correspondent Strobe Talbott that the Haig trip was "all part of a campaign...
...opera managers neglect the war horses at their peril...
...Close observers of Argentine politics agree that anti-Jewish feeling runs deep in Argentine history and culture. But they doubt that the ideology of the junta is profoundly antiSemitic. They also question Timerman's theory that Argentine Jews are involved in a conspiracy of silence about their present peril...