Word: shores
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Reagan knows that true peace in this age must rest on America's economic and military strength, and he is working to shore up both. There has been some careless war talk by the President's men and maybe a little too much saber rattling in the Caribbean and the Middle East. Yet even that has had some beneficial side effects. The President seems to have knocked the Soviets off balance a bit. If the history of the past 25 years tells us anything it is that when the Soviets are a little scared they complain bitterly...
Mitterrand has made several pro-missile pronouncements calculated to shore up Helmut Schmidt. In addition, continuing a policy begun by former President Valery Giscard d'Estaing, Mitterrand is modernizing France's nuclear forces. Its submarine fleet, which will number seven by 1990, is being equipped with multiple-warhead M-4 missiles, and the 35 Mirage IV strategic bombers will receive new air-to-ground missiles...
Initially, the Swedes had vowed to keep the intruder until the Soviets gave an adequate explanation of how and why its skipper had come to grief only ten yds. from shore, like a careless Sunday yachtsman caught by an ebbing tide. The Swedes scoffed at the Soviets' reported claim that the sub's navigation gear had failed: after all, it had certainly been working well enough to guide the vessel up the channel in the first place. Declared General Lennart Ljung, the Supreme Commander of the Swedish Armed Forces: "I don't think it happened because...
...face the firearms of the whites. Sometimes their spirits, resolve and sheer numbers would overwhelm the enemy, but more often than not, they failed. Yet whites on those vessels admitted that the Africans never conceded and would always renew the battle. But once out of sight of the African shore, suicide remained as the only truly viable form of protest for the soon-to-be slaves; though starvation and drowning seem to be passive actions of giving up, Harding asserts that these moves occurred rather to defy the whites and return the Blacks spiritually to their homeland...
Women and UHS at Harvard--an Informal discussion with Dr. Eleanor Shore, Nancy Pasco, RN and Jan Bencit, RN; Ellot...