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...sides start off more modestly-by limiting deployment of anti-ballistic missile (ABM) systems to their respective capitals. U.S. proponents of arms control swiftly urged Nixon to accept the plan. They pointed out that it would save the U.S. the enormous cost of continuing to develop its Safeguard ABM system, which has been deployed around selected Minuteman missile sites despite strong objections in Congress. Moscow has been guarded by a ring of 64 ABMs since 1967, but none have been deployed since then...
Mismatched Lawyers. From the outset, Manson clearly intended to make the trial his own show. He wanted no lawyers at all. When a judge decided that Manson could not properly safeguard his own procedural rights, the defendant considered more than 60 hopeful attorneys and perversely put together a defense team as mismatched as the shards of his own personality...
...ABMs, including the proposed U.S. Safeguard system, work essentially the same way. High-speed rockets, usually nuclear-tipped, are exploded high above the atmosphere to damage or destroy incoming ICBMs. In the asphalt-cloud technique, the ABM disperses millions of particles in the path of enemy missiles. When the rockets plunge into the atmosphere, the highly combustible bits of asphalt that they have picked up ignite from frictional heat; the asphalt burns so rapidly and creates such great temperatures that the heat shields on the ICBMs are all but consumed. Then the missiles either burn up or are so deformed...
...would be desirable to safeguard this eventuality by altering the existing electoral system," it continues. The report suggests a majority-vote runoff system-in which another election is held if no candidate for an office receives a majority...
...first choice of object in mankind," Freud believed, "is regularly an incestuous one." Sir James Frazer, the British anthropologist, also explained the almost universal ban on incest as a necessary safeguard against man's urge to mate with the most available partner: "The law only forbids men to do what their instincts incline them to do." For years, most scientists discounted a contrary suggestion by Finnish Anthropologist Edward Westermarck that close childhood association discourages erotic feeling...