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...Soviets deep concern. But if he now totally refuses to budge on Star Wars, the President runs the risk of touching off the costliest surge yet in the arms race. Without some accord on space weapons, the superpowers could get caught in what is known as an offense-defense spiral: each side proliferates offenses to penetrate the other's new or improved defenses, and adds defenses to protect itself against the other's increasingly sophisticated offenses. That is the classic formula for strategic instability and nuclear brinkmanship. For a President hoping to go down in history as a peacemaker...
...Lagos during an attempted coup and persuaded them to surrender. It was he too who masterminded the army coup that, on the last day of 1983, toppled Shehu Shagari, the civilian President whose winking acceptance of endemic corruption had helped plunge oil-rich Nigeria into a still continuing spiral of poverty. Last week Babangida was in the vanguard of yet another takeover, only this time he took the prize for himself. In a carefully planned coup, the short, stocky general from central Nigeria was installed as President of Africa's most populous country. It was the sixth coup since Nigeria...
...sheer silliness as well. It centers around Pee Wee's relentless search for his stolen bicycle. It must be understood that this is not just any bicycle, but the ultimate kid's bicycle (at least in Pee Wee's mind), complete with lion's head on the handlebars, spiral wheels, streamers trailing from the handgrips, and the world's loudest horn...
...ranging from the National Organization for Women to the United Church of Christ filed in sympathy with CBS. The company delivered a 90-page denunciation of Turner. In a memo attached to the petition, CBS charged that if Turner were to gain control, the network would begin a "death spiral." CBS claims that Turner would burden the firm with $4.5 billion in debt...
...process continues, the earth's rotation causes the column of rising air to spiral. Fueled by a constant supply of hot tropical air, the storm feeds on itself, generating roaring winds that swirl around its "eye." When the system reaches cooler and dryer air on land, it begins to lose force. By then, however, the storm may have released energy equivalent to that of about 9 million Hiroshima-type atom bombs...