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February 28, 1982: The clock was winding down, and the Harvard women's hockey team was training a superior Princeton squad, 4-2, in the final of the Ivy League tournament at Dartmouth. Hanover's deep-freeze was seeping into Thompson Arena, where most of the 5000 seats (all green) were empty, the rink announcer listed the Tigers' scoring in a voice like that of HAL the computer in "2001", and the few Dartmouth students who wandered by were decidedly pro-Princeton ("We can't root for Hahvahd"). And in the waning minutes, Princeton winger Kelly O'Dell pumped...
...dominant impression from the visit was Brezhnev's insecurity about his forthcoming U.S. trip. Whatever Brezhnev's systems analysts might tell him of Moscow's emerging military parity, to him America seemed to be a land of superior technology and wondrous capacity, a country of marvelous efficiency compared to the cumbersome Soviet colossus. Brezhnev endlessly sought reassurance that he would be courteously received in America. I was touched by this insecurity...
...tente would ease our defense burden. Nixon, with my encouragement, consistently picked the highest budget option presented by the Defense Department. But the challenge turned out to be defense direction even more than defense spending. The basis of our strategy since 1945 had been the reliance on superior American strategic nuclear power to compensate for the Soviets' advantage in conventional forces and proximity to key areas. By 1973 the Soviets had achieved parity in numbers of strategic delivery vehicles and superiority in throw weight (the total aggregate weight of warheads). Thus resort to strategic nuclear war became less...
...Pope's crackdown began last year after Jesuit Superior General Pedro Arrupe, considered Catholicism's second most powerful leader, suffered a serious stroke. In October, John Paul cast aside Arrupe's choice of an interim leader and landed control to his personal delegate, Jesuit Father Paolo Dezza. Some 5,000 protest letters came to the order's headquarters from the 86 Jesuit regional units around the globe. A group of 18 West German Jesuits, including eminent Theologian Karl Rahner, complained sharply to the Pope that it was difficult to "recognize the hand of God in this...
Eleven prisoners were transferred to the Jail immediately after Superior Court Judge Charles R. Albert's decision, where they spokesman for the sheriff's department, said that because of limited funding this spring they will only use one of the Jail's four floors. The jail occupies the top four floors of the Middlesex County Courthouse building...