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...that will strengthen or weaken the nation's defenses for years to come. That excuse, however, will not last beyond fiscal 1982. By the time it presents the 1983 budget to Congress next January, the Ad ministration will have to sort out its ideas on what kind of Army, Navy and Air Force (and Rapid Deployment Force) the nation needs for the rest of the 1980s, what weapons they will wield, what kind of strategic doctrine they will be asked to carry out, what sort of manpower policy will fill the ranks, and what assistance the defense production industry needs...
...stop polluting and tampering chemically with its products. He notes, 'No fewer than 14 of the 16 approved food dyes of 1946 were banned as of 1980 on the ground that they were carcinogens. It seems clear that consumers are being asked to jeopardize their health in order to strengthen corporate balance sheets...
...bulwark in the Middle East against Soviet influence, an aim that concerns the Administration more than reviving the Camp David talks about Palestinian autonomy. Administration officials believe that Peres would be easier to deal with, but nonetheless respect Begin for his forthright stands. As part of its plan to strengthen Israel, no matter who won the election, the Administration late last week acknowledged that it would send six F-16 warplanes to Israel on schedule later this month and would "soon" release the four F-16s that had been held up after the Israeli airstrike on the Iraqi nuclear reactor...
Despite all this lethal ingenuity, the only really good news from the bug battlefront is that most healthy trees can survive two or three onslaughts. Indeed, foresters like to point out that the moths often strengthen the woodland by eliminating sickly specimens. But such Darwinian reassurances are little comfort to suburbanites worried about a favorite elm or oak. By now, about all they can do is keep the tree as healthy as possible -faithful watering and feeding help -gather up and destroy every clutch of moth eggs in sight, and wait until next year. -By Frederic Golden. Reported by Anne...
There seem to be but three ways to go. One is the road already set upon: to mend and strengthen existing international political and technological agreements. It would seem sensible to call for an immediate review of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, had not the last review taken place less than a year ago, accomplishing essentially nothing. No final declaration was agreed upon. Still, yet another review of the NPT might work if it included an agreement among some of the nations that supply nuclear materials to cool their avarice and adopt binding commercial practices. If those that did not sign...