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There is a still more alarming, if more remote prospect. Many of the poorest countries, though on the brink of mass famine, have enough resources and technology to produce atomic weapons. India exploded its first bomb 16 months ago; other states like Pakistan could follow suit. It is unlikely but not inconceivable that these economically desperate states, feeling they have nothing to lose, might try to use nuclear blackmail to get more help from the West. As Economist Robert Heilbroner writes in his highly pessimistic An Inquiry into the Human Prospect, "The resort to ultimate tactics is surely...
...normal people, but these chaps are a little unnormal at the moment." Shortly before midnight a glowering John Vorster stormed out of the railway car and left for home. He was soon followed by Kenneth Kaunda. As the meeting adjourned at midnight, Smith seemed positively elated by the prospect of its failure...
Faced with the prospect of failing again and being asked to leave, he considered withdrawing. A visit to Bok clinched his decision...
Though the Ford Administration long ago stopped calling inflation "Public Enemy No. 1, "price increases and the prospect of more are dominating the news to a surprising extent in the early days of economic recovery. Last week brought a mixed bag of actions. The Soviets let the U.S. Government know that they want to buy additional U.S. grain in quantities that-if the sales were permitted-would be very inflationary. President Ford decided finally to permit removal of controls on oil prices, gambling that increases will be relatively modest, and General Motors announced boosts in car prices smaller than...
Although the alumni colleges do not hold exams or give grades, most insist on serious academic work. Stanford sends its applicants a five-book reading list (including Richard Barnet's Roots of War and Robert Heilbroner's An Inquiry into the Human Prospect) in the spring. But some programs take a less intellectual approach. For instance, about 85 adults have signed up for a seven-day course in crime and justice at the University of Oregon this month. In one class a private detective is scheduled to demonstrate how to protect a house from burglars. Many of Oregon...