Word: shielding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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These are the same Dirty Harry-type clods who get all worked up when some bad guy "gets off" because his constitutional rights were violated. What they forget--or don't care to understand--is that the Bill of Rights exists to shield the innocent from such harassment. The umbrella of its liberties extends to the guilty to protect better those of the innocent--those who have nothing to hide...
...SOPHISTRY to imagine, as Reagan has suggested, that Star Wars will protect the people of this world from a nuclear war of the proportions possible today. A system designed to shield the U.S. and its allies from megatons of nuclear force is scientifically unlikely and financially unrealistic. In addition, Star Wars, under current conditions, would destabilize world security and promote further escalation of the arms race...
This brings me to the fourth and most important point. There can be no elimination of nuclear weapons without the creation of a functional nuclear defense. Reagan must not allow one day to pass when the U.S. has neither nuclear arms nor a shield against nuclear arms. To allow a window of vulnerability on this count would, to twist Gorbachev's characterization, be madness...
...Arms control with the Soviet Union that eradicates nuclear arms before they're fired makes more sense than a shield after they're fired," Kennedy said, referring to the Strategic Defense Initiative, often called "Star Wars...
...also wrote a revealing book, The Last Mafioso, and has taken his story on the road, testifying at numerous trials. All this public testimony means that the Mafia is losing what Floyd Clark, assistant FBI director in charge of criminal investigations, calls a "tremendous asset: fear and intimidation. That shield is being removed...