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...sides. When Reagan unveiled Star Wars in 1983, he was challenging the assumption that the human race is condemned to rely for its survival on a suicide pact between two hostile states. He envisioned a comprehensive, impregnable system of exotic, space-based missile killers that would, in his phrase, render nuclear weapons "impotent and obsolete." Some advocates of the program, however, would settle for a more modest shield designed to protect American missile sites...
...irony of Ethiopia's predicament that, after a decade of drought, relief workers are, for the moment, praying for little rain. Early last week, torrential downpours damaged 5% of the supplies stranded at Assab. Worse still, heavy rains expected in many areas within the next two months will render roads muddy and impassable for relief trucks. Above all, they will increase the likelihood that both contagious diseases and death by exposure could sweep through the crowded camps...
...Problem: a deterioration in Soviet-American relations. Cause: a lack of "understanding" between the two leaderships. Solution: a summit with Gorbachev. -- Problem: the threat of nuclear war. Cause: traditional deterrence, which relies on the suicide pact of Mutual Assured Destruction. Solution: render offensive nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete with the Strategic Defense Initiative...
...sense the limitations of his discussion and buttresses his ideas with a glut of observations, quotations, and baseball minutia gleaned from his years covering the Red Sox. The profiles of Sox players and accounts of management parsimony are interesting, but they often diverge from one another failing to render any brand of incisive argument. This is not impressionistic so much as it is egregiously diffuse...
Though there is no shortage of unresolved business from prior attempts at arms control, the Geneva negotiations seem certain to be dominated by a major new issue, one that could profoundly alter the nature of the arms race. That issue is Star Wars, Ronald Reagan's cherished plan to render offensive nuclear missiles "impotent and obsolete" by constructing a defensive shield based in outer space. Officially termed the Strategic Defense Initiative, Star Wars would employ a variety of still emerging technologies, including laser beams and high-energy particles, to shoot down attacking warheads before they reach their targets...