Word: respondents
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...when things are getting really bad. Yale student Saybrook Pierson (Wee Triharder), annoyed because he hasn't got a bit of studying done all weekend what with the noise and everything, calls in Archie Epps (John Fox) and John Fox (Archie Epps) to quiet things down. Epps and Fox respond immediately by reminding the rowdy students about some obscure rule concerning alcohol use. A committee is formed. Nobody pays attention, though, and the parties continue...
...doctrine of "flexible response" that both the U.S. and its European allies accepted years ago: the use of tactical nuclear weapons would not necessarily lead to nuclear holocaust. If the Soviets were to attack in Europe with their overwhelming superiority in conventional arms, NATO could choose to respond on the battlefield with tactical nuclear weapons, a threat meant to deter any invasion in the first place...
...limited nuclear war. Secretary Brezhnev has just declared that the Soviet Union has no intention of [being the first to use] nuclear weapons. That rules out a pre-emptive strike. Why shouldn't the U.S. respond with a similar statement? Such a statement would do much to calm the very tense atmosphere and allay fear. None of us will be forgiven if nuclear weapons are ever used. We rule out the possibility of limited nuclear war. In a nuclear war, whether supposedly limited or unlimited, it will be difficult to tell the victor from the vanquished...
...pressure the authorities into practical economic reforms. "Not until we get a government that gets back to governing the way people want can we get back to working," he said. "That's why when people tell us it's time to get back to work, we respond no." But Walesa insisted that Solidarity was not using such tactics to gain political power. Said he: "We know we cannot topple the government, we cannot replace it. Rather, we have to establish relations with...
...refining their techniques, Hodgkin's researchers noticed that irradiation also seemed to relieve arthritis in laboratory animals. Stanford University's Dr. Henry S. Kaplan, 63, one of the pioneers in Hodgkin's treatment, then devised a similar therapy for rheumatoid arthritis victims who had failed to respond to conventional treatment, which included use of cytotoxic (cell damaging) and anti-inflammatory drugs...