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...first propaganda salvo came from Marshal Nikolai Ogarkov, Chief of the Soviet General Staff. In a rare interview, Ogarkov bluntly described the consequences of any NATO missile buildup as "very sad, very bad." The Soviet Union, he told the New York Times, would have to respond to a NATO nuclear attack by striking back directly at the U.S. Declared Ogarkov: "If the U.S. would use these missiles in Europe against the Soviet Union, it is not logical to believe that we will retaliate only against targets inEurope...
With those words, the Vice President fired his opening salvo in a hastily arranged twelve-day, seven-country public relations blitz calculated to win the hearts and minds of the growing number of Western Europeans troubled by the missile issue. Their major concern: that U.S. rigidity in negotiating an arms control agreement with Moscow would mean almost certain deployment of 572 U.S. Pershing II and cruise missiles in Western Europe beginning at the end of the year. Bush's task is formidable. He will strive to present a "flexible" U.S. commitment to arms control while asking the Europeans...
John Kennedy was the most forthright in his alternating moods. Many nights he sank into a black fatalism, telling friends it was a certainty that somebody, some time, would launch a nuclear salvo. Within minutes he could change personality and assert that it was his job to modify the lessons of history...
...opening salvo in the battle for the Falkland Islands? No. The commander was merely playing Obliterate, a video computer game designed by Mercury 332, an electronic publishing company based in Manchester, England, that offers the game as part of the information it supplies through Prestel, a videotext information and entertainment service in eight countries, including...
Pierre Bergé, partner and protector of Yves Saint Laurent, peeks over the battlements at the enemy force below and, as if panicking, fires off a salvo before he has found his aim. "Give me one piece of clothing, one fashion statement that Armani has made that has truly influenced the world...