Word: strikingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that the superpowers have reached a delicate balance of terror. After a crash program to install more S59 and SS-11 land-based missiles, the Soviets apparently feel that they have reached parity with the U.S. Even so, each side realizes that it does not possess sufficient first-strike power to render the other side incapable of a nuclear riposte that would gravely damage the attacker. The Soviets have about 1,350 land-based intercontinental missiles, compared with 1,054 U.S. ICBMs. The Russian missiles are larger, but the U.S.'s are more accurate. While...
...caution is a product of the long debate over the desirability of offering any concessions to the Soviets. As justification for its ABM program and for the testing and deployment of MIRVs, the Pentagon insists that the Soviets are striving for a first-strike superiority in missiles rather than simple parity with the U.S. On the other hand, as the U.S. delegates were about to leave for Helsinki, Secretary of State Rogers delivered a speech that had full White House approval. In a rebuttal of the Pentagon point of view, Rogers said: "The risks in seeking an agreement seem...
...seizure is to provoke violence and cause some blood to be shed . . . all the discontented students [then] rally against the apparent perpetrators of the violence and a number of the conformist students also are temporarily 'radicalized' out of sympathy for the few who may have been injured . . . a strike is [then] called as a first step toward shutting down the institution...
...accept the fact that a large part of the student body feels that we're part of the establishment that they are fighting," he added. Zavelle noted that the biggest monthly jump in student shoplifting came between April and May of last spring, at the time of the student strike at Harvard...
...Strike Losses High