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...throughout has been to provide the necessary military support for El Salvador in order to protect it against subversion while it attempts to strengthen its economy and domestic political institutions. As Reagan said last week, "We do not view security assistance as an end in itself but as a shield for democratization, economic development and diplomacy...
George B. Eager, Director of Communications at Princeton, yesterday defended the University against charges that it had handled Shields' application improperly. Eager said the University had left the final decision up to Wickenden to protest the confidentiality of Shield's application...
...ones, Reagan is counting on American technological and economic predominance to prevail in the end. The most striking, and questionable, theme in his star wars speech was his apparent belief that the U.S. could mobilize its scientific community and its economic resources in quest of an impenetrable antiballistic-missile shield over...
Enter the MX--missile experimental--billed as the invulnerable missile needed to restore that credibility. Its chief virtue was to be a basing system that would shield or hide it from Soviet warheads. In addition, the missile boasted more warheads and improved accuracy...
...with alcohol, there are those who can use coke on occasion and have no problems, and there are cocaholics." Statutes cannot recognize such a distinction (although Delaware's try, with lesser penalties for addicted dealers), nor should smug cocaine apologists be permitted to bandy the distinction about as a shield. But it is necessary to an understanding of just how such a dangerous drug could become so pervasive, even routine. "The only way to cut down the demand for coke," says a senior DEA agent in the South, "is to prove what the effects...