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...United States had nuclear weapons, we had to acquire them. They had the means to deliver nuclear weapons. We did not possess such means we had to develop them. The same is true of practically all major strategic weapons systems SLBMs, MIRVs, cruise missiles etc... The Americans were the first to introduce them for the us to follow suit...
...wished to use such propaganda to legitimize the colonization, enslavement, and general inhumane treatment of these very some people. Africa and African cultures have been under attack ever since slavery made it essential that large groups of people actually believed that the enslaved Africans were too uncivilized to possess the "right" or the desire to have their own freedom, just as very similar images of savagery were being used to justify the many genocidal acts committed against Native Americans during these same periods of time. The Lampoon's depictions of what looked like less-than-human savages were no better...
...agree that it is dangerous for the Government to lend money to failing businesses. It is also impossible to specify the qualities an executive must possess in order to save a company. However, it is apparent that Iacocca has the unique combination of attributes that enables him to direct a comeback...
Hemingway made it his happiest hunting ground. Isak Dinesen, in Out of Africa, compared it to England in the 18th century, when an aristocrat might possess a "lovely landscape and a multitude of servants." For Cyril Connolly, however, the East African colony of Kenya was no paradise lost. It was the site of a 1941 murder that obsessed the British essayist and critic for a decade. By the time Connolly died in 1974, he had come tantalizingly close to finding the answer to the question that had mesmerized two generations of colonial society: Who shot Josslyn Hay, 22nd Earl...
...have begun flight-testing two new models of ICBMs while improving the accuracy and hardening the silos of existing ones. "The Soviets have deployed more highly accurate MX-like ICBM warheads in each of the past three years than are contained in our entire MX program," said Weinberger. "They possess the ability to destroy a large percentage of our own Minuteman ICBMs in their silos, while still providing a substantial, and largely invulnerable, reserve...