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Despite the Soviet Union's egregious act of brutality in the Asian skies, the current session of talks on Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces (INF) got under way a scant five days after the 269 people aboard the Korean Air Lines jet were killed by Soviet missiles. With good reason: if Soviet and American negotiators do not reach agreement by the end of the year, the U.S. and NATO plan to counter the Soviet SS-20 missiles targeted at Western Europe with an equally formidable array of Pershing II and cruise missiles. And so far, discouragingly little progress has been...
...rain pours down relentlessly, and the guillotine, disused for a blessed day, stands shrouded in black as the carriage rolls past it. Inside, Georges Danton, self-absorbed as usual, pays scant heed to the instrument with which in a matter of weeks he will find more intimate acquaintance. On this same grim morning in the winter of 1793-94, Maximilien Robespierre, whose health (and humanity) has been virtually consumed by the revolutionary fever that has burned within his puritanical soul for a lifetime, reluctantly awakens. He knows that with the return to Paris of Danton, once a colleague in revolution...
Although the answer to this question is not in the transcript, it is presumably no, since Pilot 805 uses his missiles with devastating effect a scant 18 min. later...
...County, farmers during a decent season coaxed 26 bu. of wheat or one bale of cotton from each cultivated acre. This year, despite getting a bit more rain than the rest of the region, they expect their fields to yield only 6 bu. of wheat per acre, or a scant tenth of a bale of cotton...
...report's publication, the MX has survived two funding votes in the House. But as doubts about Reagan's intentions to deliver on his end of the bargain have grown, support has slipped. The most recent authorization vote in the House, in July, passed by a scant 13-vote margin...