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Soviet gains have not been limited to the Third World. Through its dynamic arms buildup, Moscow has almost eliminated the U.S. advantage in strategic nuclear weapons. Although Brezhnev ridicules talk about "the Soviet threat," experts are nearly unanimous in their assessment that Moscow has been arming at a faster pace than the West. In the past 15 years, for example, the Soviets have been increasing military expenditures by about 3% annually. NATO is pledged to such a hike this year, but this merely reverses years of frugality. From 1967 through 1975, in fact, the Pentagon's budget actually declined (when...
...Since the announcement of normalization between Washington and Peking, there has been much talk in the U.S. of "playing the China card" and presumably some Chinese hope to play the American card. What do you think of such concepts, and what is the probable future of Soviet relations with China...
Twenty-year-old Willie B. is a diehard TV addict. He hates news and talk shows, but he loves football and gets so excited over food commercials that he sometimes charges at the set, waving a fist. Says a friend: "He's like a little child...
...talk show hosts don't usually discuss the prospects for reform, or the details of corruption--everybody's more interested in Brill's solution to the Hoffa disappearance. On a radio talk show in Seattle, a caller maintained that Brill was wrong, that Hoffa was still alive. "Why, I was just down in Argentina this summer, and I was in a bar, and there was Jimmy Hoffa, belly up to the bar, sipping a beer and chatting with Adolph Hitler." Brill told the caller, "Hey, fella, I think you got a bigger story there than just Jimmy Hoffa...
...York City-based public relations executive; she for the third time, he for the first; in Manhattan. Porter, whose daily column appears in over 400 papers worldwide, once earned a compliment from a White House reader. "Why, goddammit," Lyndon Johnson thundered, "can't these economists talk straight like Sylvia...