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...life. They speak of money devoted to missiles instead of hospitals, to tanks instead of school books. They speak of the secrecy of military decisions and the erosion of the democratic process. And they try to "do something" to turn the tide, to find a way to halt the spiral...
...solution to the arms race, he urges a spiral with the "conventional arms reduction as the first phase, nuclear arms as the second." If both sides should relinquish their conventional weapons, which are the instruments used in armed subversions, one of the major steps towards a war would be eliminated, he claimed...
...last fifteen years a fundamental conflict of interest between this country and the Soviet Union has engendered an increasingly dangerous spiral of weapons development, threat and counter-threat, bluff and counter-bluff...
...Upward Spiral. Their case involved two extraordinary apartheid measures: South Africa's Immorality Act, which forbids sexual relations between people of different colors, and a second law, which prohibits mixed marriages. As a deterrent, the Immorality Act has worked none too well over the years. In the past decade, about 4,000 mixed unmarried couples have been convicted. Victims need not be caught in the act; they can be jailed if discovered in suspicious circumstances. Last summer John Rudd, 34, a prominent Johannesburg businessman, was arrested in his home with Dottie Tiyo, a dark-skinned 21-year-old professional...
...wherever she appeared in her new stretch pants. Next year the Bogners sold only 1,000 pairs of the pants, but have since stretched their output, last year sold more than 120,000 all over the world-many to clients who will never see a slope steeper than the spiral ramp of Manhattan's Guggenheim Museum...