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None of the three presidents carried out their plans, mainly, Kaku says, because America had no shield. Star Wars, according to him, could make such attacks feasible in the future...
...meat loaf to sweetbreads with pine nuts, and working in the yard to scholarly pastimes. Atwood builds the case for Ed's "endearing thickness" so cannily that it almost seems true. But, as it turns out, Sally is really the dumb one: Ed's seeming obtuseness is only his shield against her disdain. Sally glimpses that truth when she catches her husband at a party with his arm pressed against Marylynne's "shimmering upper thigh." Too late, Sally muses, "Possibly he's enormously clever...
...also the basis of her fatalism. "If someone wishes to use a bazooka on me," she once said, "it's goodbye. If it's my time to die, I'll go." In the meantime, she exasperates her security men by acting as if she were protected by some invisible shield. Her sense of religion accounts too for Aquino's uncanny patience, her willingness, while awaiting what she regards as the appointed moment, to hold onto a burning match until it singes her fingers...
Shultz tried to convince the Europeans that the U.S. will not abandon its nuclear shield over Western Europe, despite Reagan's controversial proposal in Reykjavik to eliminate all ballistic missiles over a ten-year period. Reiterating his statement of last month, he said at the annual meeting of NATO foreign ministers in Brussels that even if agreement were reached to scrap most nuclear missiles "a small residual ballistic-missile force" would remain as "insurance" to guard against Soviet cheating. Shultz was also careful to discourage speculation that a politically weakened President might be hustled into a disadvantageous deal with...
...REAGAN AWARE of the offensive capabilities of SDI? If so, is he hiding his motives behind the smoke screen of a "peace shield," or is he simply naive about how future leaders might apply the technology? According to English, Reagan and his Administration are well-informed as to the attack capabilites of Star Wars...