Word: scenario
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...escapades in Afghanistan and Poland. The bottom line of all this--more nuclear weapons that are increasingly complex and hence more prone to accidental detonation. This is the stuff of dissent, of passion, of fear. And these are the supporting actors, the backdrop and the props for the ultimate scenario of the absurd...
...wake of the Communist victory, obliterated by the sinking junks of boat people, obliterated by the stories of "reeducation camps," obliterated with the recognition that at least some of the men who surrounded Ho Chi Minh are unreconstructed Stalinists. But what about the conclusion that Podhoretz draws from the scenario? Vietnam, he says, was an "act of imprudent idealism whose moral soundness has been, overwhelmingly vindicated by the hideous consequences of our defeat." Given the boat people, he says, the American effort to save the South from Communism was correct. But he is wrong...
...TIME these three spend together leads to their violent demise is revealed through the tribunal. The judge, played by Josh Mutton, develops the scenario through questioning various characters. None of the witness roles requires much depth, and each is adequately presented. Mutton shows a dutiful judge whose concern for preserving the peace condones the brusqueness of the soldiers, the matter-of-factness of the doctors...
...then, should the U.S. feel it needs or even wants more nuclear weapons, whoever might be said to have that elusive lead? Because Reagan apparently has in mind a ghastly scenario that is now possible, at least in theory. It goes this way: improvements in missile accuracy now make it conceivable that the U.S.S.R., by launching a mere 200 of its multiple-warhead missiles, could destroy nearly all the 1,052 U.S. land-based missiles in their silos. The U.S. would then not be able to take out the remaining Soviet missiles, especially since submarine-launched missiles...
That bitter game has long fascinated George Steiner, 52, polymathic professor of literature and author of brilliant essays ranging from Homer to Schoenberg and Heidegger. So when he heard that Nazi Hunter Simon Wiesenthal had found the spoor of Mass Murderer Martin Bormann, he began to concoct a scenario: What might happen if a group of Jewish avengers located the Führer? The resulting novel, The Portage to San Cristóbal of A.H., has already aroused angry controversy in Britain ("Astonishing," Anthony Burgess wrote in the Observer, but the New Statesman charged "subversive admiration for Hitler"). The controversy...