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Nicholas J. Wyse '84 of Adams House will deliver the undergraduate English oration, and fourth-year Medical School student Robert Kaplan will give the graduate English speech...
Morales said he plans to speak on the apparent death of heroism in society, but said he will end his speech on a positive note. Spaulding, who has been very active in women's issues and sexual harassment, will address those topics...
...Teller, the Hungarian-born superhawk, often described as the father of the hydrogen bomb, whose bold and controversial ideas have occasionally led some of his fellow physicists to moan, "E.T., go home." Teller's brainstorm became Reagan's dream, and the dream became national policy. In a speech in March 1983, the President asked, "What if free people could live secure in the knowledge that . . . we could intercept and destroy strategic ballistic missiles before they reached our own soil or that of our allies?" In December, with no fanfare, Reagan approved $26 billion over the next five years...
...March 1983 speech unveiling the scheme, he said he hoped the U.S. could erect an umbrella of impenetrable antimissile defenses over itself and its allies. By thus rendering an attacker's weapons impotent, the U.S. would not have to count on ballistic missiles and bombers to deter Soviet aggression or to retaliate against an attack. No longer would "crisis stability" between the superpowers have to be enshrined in a suicide pact...
...current situation could not be less propitious, or the dilemma more obvious. It was articulated clearly by a top Administration military scientist, Richard DeLauer, Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering, about six weeks after Reagan's original Star Wars speech. The proposed defensive system, said DeLauer, could be overcome by Soviet offensive weapons unless it was coupled with substantial controls on offensive arms. "With unconstrained proliferation" of Soviet warheads, he added, "no defensive system will work...