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...make a judgment on what it actually takes to deter the Kremlin from launching a first strike. Still, the notion of raining down nuclear weapons on the U.S.S.R. -- "convincing every last Soviet official that he's the target," as one Air Force official put it -- is sufficiently outrageous to spur experts to speak out. In the quarterly journal International Security, national security scholars Desmond Ball and Robert Toth call the current version of SIOP "wasteful and dangerous" as well as "destabilizing to the nuclear balance...
...Increase spending on housing, sewers, parks and airports by about $2.8 trillion over the next ten years. Better housing and public facilities should spur the Japanese to reduce savings and spend more. This should increase demand for American imports, including construction services...
...Northwest? It would be impossibly costly for Congress to insure every citizen against the winds of change. But when scores of communities are imperiled, relief measures are necessary. In the case of the Northwest, the Federal Government should help retrain loggers and millworkers and provide towns with grants to spur economic diversification. Congress could also help sustain the Northwest's processing mills by passing legislation aimed at reducing raw-log exports...
...Government connection surfaced when it turned out that a fourth of the export credits extended by BNL had been backed by the Commodity Credit Corporation. The CCC, an arm of the Department of Agriculture, provides guarantees to spur sales of U.S. farm products. But the department's own inquiry revealed that the CCC had no idea whether the credits it had backed were used to purchase U.S. farm commodities that actually reached Iraq, or were resold to third countries for hard currency. Possibly some of the credit guarantees backed shipments of nonagricultural products like transportation spare parts...
...interview, photographer David Burnett got Gorbachev, on the spur of the moment, to pose by the window. Late for his next meeting, the Soviet leader would not keep still. "He began to walk away after I had taken only four shots," Burnett says. But he was able to take several dozen pictures, including the one on the opening pages of our special section...