Word: sabers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...essential that Harvard view the new regulation as the unfair and arbitrary measure it is. Draft registration itself has been problematic from the start, both philosophically and practically. It is extremely doubtful whether the whole concept has ever been more than meaningless saber rattling. serving only to make an actual war more conceivable. Worse, the selective enforcement of the law so far has underscored the typically arbitrary prosecution of nonregistrants...
...vague threat of punishment, compels people to register, so many of them don't. Seven percent of the 8.4 million eligible young men have reacted negatively--for the most part, in a passive fashion--to a program whose only discernible effect is to propagate a Cold War-style, saber-jangling approach toward relations with Moscow...
...Reagan has dealt with Europe. What upsets the Europeans most is the President's blunt anti-Soviet policies, and in particular, the recent imposition of sanctions on the trans-Siberian pipeline. What European heads-of-state have forcefully argued is this: Reagan's top priority in Europe may be saber-rattling, but the Allies' chief concern is running their respective governments and repairing battered economies. They add that if Reagan wants a free hand in trying to revive the U.S. economy, then Europeans should also be able to implement economic recovery plans as they...
Word of the discovery came last week from British-born Anthropologist J. Desmond Clark of the University of California at Berkeley. Says he: "I think we've got something both significant and extremely exciting." Although paleontologists often scrap as furiously over their bones as saber-toothed tigers, they do not disagree with Clark's assessment. "It's of tremendous potential," says Berkeley's F. Clark Howell, who has spent years fossil hunting in East Africa. Agrees Duke's Richard Kay: "A blockbuster...
...nuclear capacity. But at the negotiating table this summer, their representatives will haggle over the same old minutiae, such as how to classify the plethora of weapons systems. Failure, when combined with the inevitable confrontations over other world issues, will likely lead the two leaders back to the saber-rattling with which they are so much more comfortable...