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...more than a decade, the U.S. and the Soviet Union have maintained a nuclear balance of terror. Today the Russians possess approximately 400 intercontinental missiles, 125 submarine-launched missiles and 700 medium-range missiles targeted on Western Europe. The U.S. has 940 Minuteman ICBMs, which can take off in 32 seconds, 54 Titan II missiles, which carry considerably more megatonnage than the smaller Minuteman, and 608 sub-borne Polarises-1,602 birds in all. With additions already under way, the flock will soon total 1,720 and pack a combined wallop equal to 1.8 billion tons of TNT, more than...
...Lord Lansdowne to the London Times in 1917, suggesting in the midst of war that peace should be made before all was ruined. He had also learned in the trenches that what the top British call the "other ranks" were not without qualities that only officers were presumed to possess-courage, loyalty, humor and intelligence. As such, they were not to be exploited, and he brought this conviction with him into the House of Commons...
Indeed, man's capacity for misunderstanding his neighbor seems inexhaustible. Take sex. Thomas Jefferson believed that apes raped black women as one way to climb a notch on the social scale. Even today, people like to think that apes possess a savage and unrestrained libido. Actually, they are scarcely interested in sex at all. In 466 hours of directly observing gorillas in the wild, Anthropologist George Schaller witnessed only two copulations and one unsuccessful try. Furthermore, gorilla swains are sadly underendowed by human standards: the erect male organ measures a scant...
...Threat. Against this setting, President Johnson last week openly invited the Soviets to agree finally to end decades of mutual distrust. "Both of us possess unimaginable power," said the President. "Our responsibility to the world is heavier than that ever borne by two nations at the same time. Our common task is now this: to search for every possible area of agreement that might enlarge, no matter how slightly or how slowly, the prospects for cooperation." Solemnly he declared: "The dogmas and vocabularies of the cold war were enough for one generation. The world must not now founder...
Neck-High. But the fact is that the South Vietnamese do not possess the men or equipment or mobility to conduct sustained operations. Thus for some time they have barely been able to hold their own. Since the rice-rich Delta must be cleaned out if the war is to be won, what is clearly required is American manpower and gunpower. As a result, U.S. military commanders have been giving increasing attention to the need for U.S. troops in what has been the exclusive war of the Delta's IV Corps commander, Lieut. General Dang Van Quang...