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...escalate into strategic nuclear attack if they would not. The only problem was to establish that tacit knowledge firmly in the enemy's mind. Those of us involved in the service at that time felt that public discussions of this limited policy by the armed forces would tend to establish the knowledge. It seems to have worked...
...incidents of old-fashioned nastiness have several intriguing elements in common. For one thing, they generally involve nations that have no mutual diplomatic relations or, if such links exist, they tend to be severely frazzled. For another, the favorite object of attack almost always involves vehicles-airliners, autos or ships-which points up the essential vulnerability of international transportation. A third point of similarity is that Communist and other totalitarian nations seem most ready to flout established diplomatic legitimacy (there are exceptions), doubtless because such regimes are freer to act without taking public opinion into account. Certainly the arbitrary...
...reliable guarantee against destruction by a substantially smaller and weaker power." "Destruction" may be too strong a word, but it is true that the old balances between large and small states are changing. As Yale Political Scientist William J. Foltz points out, disruptions in established diplomatic order "tend to take place at times when the world is shifting from one form of world order to another, when the new rules of the game are still being worked out." The old rules, as laid out after 1945, implied that the great powers would guarantee the peace-but that task has found...
Class Strata. Though everyone on the rock scene is aware of the groupie phenomenon, it is next to impossible to know how many there are-mainly because rock stars, like most young men, tend to brag about their conquests. They come, says Zappa, "from any home that has contact with rock and roll and with radio and records. That's everybody." Zappa contends that there are thousands of them, ranging in age all the way from 50 ("Although they have to look damned good at that age to get any action") down...
When there's two feet of snow on the ground and three feet of slush in the streets, people in Cambridge tend to find strange escapes. Some even take to snow-diving, a cold but existential sport...