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Should We Be Alarmed by Recent Soviet Nuclear Programs? will be the topic of a discussion by Jack Ruina, former Director of Advanced Research Projects at the Department of Defense and now Professor of Electrical Engineering at MIT, and Col. William M. Stokes III, U.S. Army, a Fellow of the Center for International Affairs at the Cambridge Forum, 3 Church Street...
Others named to the group yesterday are Michael Baram, MIT professor of Civil Engineering; Jack P. Ruina, MIT professor of electrical engineering; and Theodore Monacelli, a Cambridge architect...
Some critics, notably Cornell Physicist Hans Bethe, a Nobel prizewinner, and Dr. J. P. Ruina, former director of the Pentagon's Advanced Research Projects Agency, are more lenient. In testimony last week before the Senate Disarmament Subcommittee, they did not attack Sentinel's basic hardware. Bethe, in fact, called the components "well designed" and said he went along with the idea that Sprints should be used to protect Minuteman sites. Both Ruina and Bethe, however, were particularly critical of Spartan's role...
...region of Emilia, the funeral cortege, decked out with red banners, slogan-bearing streamers and a brass band, looks like a political rally. Prohibited by law from parading across holy ground, the procession stops at the churchyard fence-but not necessarily the propaganda. Not long ago the priest of Ruina Ferrarese (pop. 800) found that at least one gravestone in the cemetery behind his tiny church was decorated not with a cross but with hammer and sickle...
Like most of Emilia's mayors, the mayor of Ruina is a Communist, but he proved to be in no hurry to tangle with the church. He found a fast face-saver: an old town ordinance stipulating that all gravestones must be approved by the city council. Since the offending stone had not been approved, the mayor ordered not merely the symbols but the stone to be taken away...