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...operational warheads, by jamming and by various methods of deception. All this as well as other considerations makes SDI a kind of "Maginot line in space" -- expensive and ineffective. Opponents of SDI maintain that even though it would be ineffective as a defensive weapon, it could create a shield behind which a first strike would be launched, since it might be effective in repelling a weakened retaliatory strike...
...students, joined by an assortment of sympathizers, were met by an overwhelming onslaught of force and fury. Some 10,000 shield-bearing policemen, armored in riot helmets, blocked major street corners. As the students marched in remembrance of their slain comrade, the police fired tear- gas grenades into their midst. Thick clouds of blinding fumes soon routed the protesters, sending them gasping and reeling. One band of Buddhist monks were gassed and shoved as they tried to enter their temple. Chanted several gray- robed monks as they were driven back: "Restore democracy! Overthrow the dictatorship...
Some say it is a mistake to reopen old wounds. But you can't open wounds that have never--and will never--heal. The Demjanjuk trial rips off the 40-year-old bandages that have allowed some to shield their eyes to their own scars. And it exposes the youngest generation to the gory wound for the first time...
...circuits are overloaded," Mrs. Reagan told a friend. The President could not deal with the rush of events in which his staff members, normally his shield, became adversaries in their unsightly scramble for cover. His ignorance about the issues, his inability to focus on complexity, to sort out chronology, and his shock at the sudden loss of popular affection produced a kind of stupor...
...some SDI was a bargaining chip for getting real agreements; for others it was an excuse to militarize space before the Soviets could; for still others it was a plausible pretext for breaking the antiballistic-missile treaty. Hardly anyone believed the pure-and-simple defensive-shield story that had been sold to the American people in, appropriately, a television cartoon. Hardly anyone, that is, but Reagan. To the horror of those around him, Reagan -- with the amiable way he has of thinking he can sell anything so obviously good as his own intentions -- began to bargain away all ballistic missiles...