Word: race
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...Chinese are different," argues one general. "They have no regard for human life. Imagine if the Red Guards had got their hands on a couple of ICBMs!" At the same time, the Russians resisted Lyndon Johnson's initial attempts to open negotiations aimed at checking the nuclear-arms race. Moscow made no secret of the fact that it was going ahead with its own ABM. As early as 1962, Nikita Khrushchev bragged that his anti-missile weapon could...
This, together with the fact that the Russians have managed to catch up somewhat in the arms race, may explain Moscow's present willingness to bargain for some form of arms limitation. Another element is that, in the absence of any agreement, both sides might soon consider it necessary to press ahead with new generations of expensive weapons, both offensive and defensive...
...nuclear race has spawned an arcane jargon of its own, one that proliferates as fast as the gadgetry that it describes. A thesaurus of key terms...
...short run, the election losses will impede Frei's efforts toward further reforms in his remaining 19 months in office (under Chilean law, he cannot run for a second successive term). More important, the Christian Democrats will now have to find allies for the bigger stakes, the presidential race next year. The most likely seem to be the centrists of the Radical Party, who polled 13% of the vote last week. What will make such maneuvering doubly interesting is that the rightist National Party, its presidential hopes inspired by last week's gains, will probably court the Radicals...
Cahalan sprinted to the finish ahead of Mike Parlier of Navy, Walt Tropp of Temple, and Eric Holtze of Yale, who had the fastest qualifying time. "I felt really good the whole race," Cahalan said last night, "I'm very pleased." The victory netted 16 of Harvard's 38 points yesterday...