Word: rid
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...former New York City policeman and White House gumshoe whose street lingo spiced up Senate Watergate hearings. Arranging hush-money payments, he made so many secretive phone calls from booths that he wore bus driver's money changer on his belt. He called distributing the cash "getting rid of the cookies." Convicted of tax evasion. Given year's probation. Now lives in tiny town of Day (pop. 656) in woods of northern New York. Hunts, fishes, raises chickens ("Just for eggs-I never eat my chickens"). Seeking publisher for 367-page ghostwritten manuscript called Tony U: A Private...
...easily or quickly proceed to a world government; rather, it is that such a nonviolent world is the only sure way of avoiding an eventual nuclear holocaust. To make that statement is not "dreamlike and fantastic." On the contrary, as Schell points out, to imagine that we can rid the world of nuclear weapons in the present political order is the ultimate naivet...
...review misses the point. Nuclear war is no longer a political issue but a moral question on which world survival depends. In light of this, our attitudes and our systems of government must change. Even if we were to rid ourselves of nuclear weapons but kept our attitudes, we would create new ways to destroy ourselves in our quest for security...
...Reagan Administration is taking up right where Allen Dulles and his CIA left off. As Schlesinger and Kinzer so effectively argue, this type of policy has no victors--only victims. Eventually, the people of Guatemala, after much senseless bloodshed, will rise up as they did in 1945 and rid themselves of whichever dictator happens to be in power. Then the United States, rightly perceived as the ally of repression, will lose another potential friend to the Soviet camp. The bitter fruit of 1954 is already tough enough to digest. Imagine the revulsion if that fruit, a product of narrow-minded...
...massive buildup. Defense specialists like Sen. Gary Hart (D-Colo.) have been vocal, through largely unheeded, advocates of a more discriminating approach to defense spending. We hope these misgivings about unbridled military spending will lead Congress to examine the Pentagon's requests with an eye toward getting rid of systems that are too costly, unreliable, or utterly useless. Many of the Pentagon's boondoggles are listed in April's Washington Monthly magazine, which describes 35 ways to cut the defense budget. Among the larger weapons systems the magazine would are and which we agree should be done away with...