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Until now, the Defense Department has limited its space goals to the development of defensive capabilities; it has explored projects like the communication satellite system and has avoided research in space programs with offensive military potential. By giving the go-ahead to MOL, Defense has entered the realm of offensive capability without redefining its goals. Does McNamara's decision mean, for instance, that the United States will also consider the possibilities of manned space stations armed with nuclear warheads? A sizable block of Congressmen has urged that the United States pursue such programs. The Pentagon should not formulate its space...
...drop of an engraved invitation, Nicole still can draw what one official calls "the whole damned decision-making apparatus of the Government" to her table. One admiring Frenchman describes her as "our secret weapon." And if good food and wine and conversation count for anything in the realm of politics, she is a one-woman force de persuasion...
...made some gains-and will make more as he demands and is grudgingly accorded the right to vote. But Mississippi whites themselves have succeeded only in losing freedom. "The white man, determined to defend his way of life at all costs, no longer has freedom of choice in the realm of ideas because they must first be harmonized with the orthodoxy," said Silver...
Exiled KING UMBERTO II of Italy (right) and his host, former Republican Governor JOHN A. VOLPE, scan the Widener card catalogue for books about the monarch's former realm...
...difficult to argue with this position, since whether or not Castro ought to be "brought down" has passed from there realm of those things we know through reason to that of those we know through faith. Consistency, in any event, has never been the greatest virtue of Kennedy's Cuban policies...