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This faith in technology as the solution to the country's military problems shone through clearly in Reagan's speech when he called on the American scientific community to "give us the means of rendering these nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete." That faith, however, may be both forgetful about the past and shortsighted toward the future. It is also strangely insensitive to the purely economic costs of opening yet another huge area in the arms race-and, conversely, to the economic benefit of keeping that area closed with arms control...
...movie from its treasury, but former Prime Minister Pandit Nehru and present Prime Minister Indira Gandhi (no relation to the Mahatma), along with other Indian officials, made suggestions on script, screenplay and casting, and rechecked the product throughout the shooting. This may in part account for the unfavorable light shone on Mohammed Ali Jinnah, the founder of Pakistan...
...clock in the morning a full moon shone over Maseru (pop. 75,000), capital of the tiny African kingdom of Lesotho, a mountainous enclave within South Africa. Most of the residents had gone to bed, except for a few night owls playing the slot machines and roulette wheels of Maseru's two casinos. Suddenly the staccato of gunfire rocked the night. Lesotho had been invaded...
...best that Western technology could offer. Brezhnev was a notoriously bad driver; yet at one time his stable included a Rolls-Royce, a Citroën-Maserati and a Mercedes-Benz 450 SLC. And Nixon remembers giving a Lincoln Continental to Brezhnev at Camp David. Brezhnev's eyes shone when he saw the car. Without warning, he waved Nixon into the front seat, took the wheel and roared off as Secret Service men looked on aghast. He and Nixon hurtled down a narrow, twisting Catoctin...
...electorate's message on specific issues remains harder to interpret, especially since Americans were voting on discrete state and local races and not one national contest. But on at least two issues--the economy and nuclear policy--some degree of consensus shone through...