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...Angiulos were right to be nervous: RICO is one tough piece of legislation. With some hyperbole, the head of the Justice Department's criminal division, Stephen Trott, calls it "the thermonuclear device of criminal statutes." More than 15 years after it was adopted by Congress, the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act has become the most potent Mob-busting tool in the nation, blasting underworld operations from New York to California...
...turned its attentions to educating people about the dangers of AIDS. Earlier this month, the Conservative Club sponsored a speech by Paul Cameron, a Nebraska psychologist and self-professed authority on the disease. Asserting that "more people on this campus will die from homosexuality than anything else short of thermonuclear war," Cameron called for an immediate quarantine of all gays, prostitutes, and intravenous drug users whose blood carries the virus linked to AIDS...
...time to get the liberals to start thinking about their fannies and stop thinking about civil rights. More people on this campus will die from homosexuality than anything else short of a thermonuclear war," he said...
...second step in Nova's dance, however, weapons designers will put its powerful beams to a less benign purpose: to improve thermonuclear bombs by mimicking certain reactions in the controlled setting of a laboratory. That will save the Pentagon the expense of having to try out every newly designed bomb at an underground test site in Nevada, a procedure that costs about $10 million per explosion. Eventually, Nova could also be used in research for the Star Wars defense program...
...containment, part of what the Atlantic Council of the U.S., a private foreign policy study group, has termed "assertive deterrence." In its ongoing effort to oppose and restrain the Soviet Union, the U.S. must have capabilities offsetting Moscow's at every level, from % small-caliber bullets to multimegaton thermonuclear warheads; the Soviets must not be permitted a monopoly in any significant category of competition, military or paramilitary. To avoid the danger of escalation, the U.S. must have the ability to combat the Soviets and their proxies on their own turf, without resorting to higher levels of violence. In practice...