Word: strike
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...missile, a $1.5 billion weapon system that occupies a gray area in analysts' calculations of the strategic balance. Because its 1,000-mile range would prevent it from hitting the Soviet Union from the U.S., the Pershing II is not, strictly speaking, a strategic weapon. But since it could strike Russia from bases in Western Europe, it is something considerably more than a tactical, battlefield nuclear device like the atomic cannon or the proposed neutron warhead...
Moscow has recently expanded its own arsenal of similar weapons. In the past year the Soviets have stationed in Eastern Europe an estimated 100 atomic-tipped, multiwarhead SS-20 intermediate-range ballistic missiles and about 90 supersonic Backfire bombers. These could strike all Western European countries. Warned Henry Kissinger at a September NATO conference in Brussels: "If there is no [Western] theater nuclear establishment on the continent of Europe, we are writing the script for selective blackmail in which our allies will be threatened...
...long ago as the mid-1960s, when targets in the U.S. first became vulnerable to Soviet ICBMS, the threat of massive nuclear retaliation lost some of its credibility, and thus some of its ability to deter Soviet aggression. Would U.S. leaders really defend Western Europe by launching a nuclear strike against the U.S.S.R. if that could trigger a devastating Soviet counterstrike at New York or Los Angeles? The question echoes more loudly now that the U.S. no longer boasts strategic superiority. As Kissinger put it in Brussels, "It is absurd to base the strategy of the West on the credibility...
...Gulf Coast League title on the line against the Bradentown Pirates. The Astros carried a 1-0 lead into the ninth, then the Pirates attached men to second and third with just one out. The call came to the bullpen for Brown. He followed an intentional walk with a strike out and a grounder to short. For the first time in eight years, the Astros had a Gulf League pennant. And a hero...
...trying to inform the public and make them aware of the boycott," Carmen Delgado. Cambridge coordinator for the UFW, said yesterday. She added. "We are also trying to raise money for the families on strike...