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...President who never bought the theory of mutual deterrence or its perverse-sounding corollary, mutual vulnerability. Ronald Reagan dreamed of pure, total defense. His Strategic Defense Initiative, or Star Wars, was a testament of faith that Yankee ingenuity could produce exotic missile-killing satellites that would render offensive weapons "impotent and obsolete...
...breakup of the Soviet Empire and the transformation of the internal order have passed the point of no return, the keepers of the Stalinist flame are on their last legs, it is too late for a rightist coup; therefore Gorbachev's accommodations with the right accomplish nothing except to render him irrelevant...
Without violence it will be difficult to prove my guilt in court, but the difficulty involved in legally implicating me in this murder does not render my intention to kill you less criminal. Does the fact that I never touched you, that you decided yourself to jump, make you any less dead...
...treatment, reported by Dr. Elizabeth Ziegler and colleagues in the New England Journal of Medicine, employs a man-made antibody called HA-1A designed to zero in on the endotoxin molecule and render it harmless. Although the Food and Drug Administration has yet to approve HA-1A for use in the U.S., the agency has given the Pentagon special permission to utilize the antibody in the gulf. Large quantities are on hand in MASH units and field hospitals...
...main reason for the new candor is last year's much maligned budget agreement, which sets firm caps on discretionary spending for the next five years and prevents meddling with all but the details of federal programs. The new rules render preposterous budgets unnecessary and encourage negotiators to make hard choices. When total spending levels are fixed, there is little point in inflating revenue estimates through rosy economic assumptions. Moreover, the caps will force both parties to make spending decisions carefully. Democrats who want to spend more on, say, housing must carve the money from another program. This programmatic triage...