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Perhaps D'Escoto's most striking remark was his closing comment: "Ted, on the basis of past history and of everything the Reagan administration has done to this point concerning my country, we have no reason to believe an invasion is not a likely scenario...
...four deaths" scenario refers to an educated guess, and the chances are just as likely that no one will die as that four people will...
...still unidentified teenage computer whiz was caught before too much harm could be done to Sloan-Kettering, but the scenario shows with dramatic immediacy the vital importance of securing computing systems. It is easy to see the ever increasing role that computers play in our society. They control the fate of "the earth through the Defense Department's vast force of nuclear armaments and early warning systems. From the immediate process of buying a ticket or confirming a reservation to the more general duties of navigation and air-traffic control they determine the fate of every passenger on every plane...
...fact, many pollsters and political consultants have been bold enough to predict a transfer of 25 to 30 seats to the Republicans. One Washington analyst even envisions a scenario in which the GOP could pick up 37 seats...
Despite that disclaimer, Reagan's critics wonder whether the President's apparent belief in a particular biblical scenario for the end of the world means that he might consider nuclear war a divine instrument. Accordingly, more than 100 religious figures, many from the antinuclear left (among them the Rev. William Sloane Coffin and Pacifist Roman Catholic Bishop Thomas Gumbleton), held a Washington press conference last week to declare it "profoundly disturbing" that high political leaders "might identify with extremists who believe that nuclear war is inevitable and imminent." They also attacked the religious right for supposedly believing "that...