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...walkout did nothing to strengthen the position of British labor unions, which was battered earlier this year in a national coal strike. Concluded an editorial in the Guardian: "Union activists can misjudge the mood among the poor bloody infantry and find themselves galloping off at the head of a phantom army...
Existing nonproliferation controls should not be abandoned just because they have been less than 100% effective. Seen against the predictions of 20 years ago, the fact that so few phantom proliferators exist today is, as France's Goldschmidt puts it, "a miracle." The nonproliferation treaty and the safeguards system still provide a vital framework for preserving the miracle. It is significant that the countries considered to be the greatest proliferation risks today are those that refuse to sign the treaty. That is proof, says Proliferation Expert Van Doren, that "most countries have some respect for their commitments." Says Herbert Kouts...
Kennedy hastens to add that "there are countries that have gone forward in ways that we don't like. We're very concerned." Indeed, a new generation of nuclear powers, and would-be powers, is maturing. Known among experts as the "phantom proliferators," these countries are contributing the most significant uncertainties about the future of nonproliferation. The phantoms are India, Pakistan, Israel, South Africa and, to a lesser degree, Argentina and Brazil...
Finally, while the movie succeeds brilliantly as a children's film, it makes the mistake of occasionally trying to say more. Most of the obstacles facing Atreyu have Phantom Tollbooth-like names such as the Swamp of Sadness--where the muck will suck you in if you can't hold a stiff upper lip and keep the sadness from overcoming...
According to U.S. officials, the two Iranian F-4 Phantom jets, which were supplied to Iran by the U.S. in the days of the Shah, took off from their base at Bushire shortly before noon last Tuesday. On the prowl for likely naval targets, they flew down the gulf near the Saudi island of Al Arabiyah, where they ran straight into a patrol of Saudi F-15 planes. Highflying U.S. AWACS planes had tracked the Iranian jets across the gulf, then Saudi coastal radar picked them up when they came within range. With the Saudi technician aboard the AWACS plane...