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...strategy of the West on the credibility of the threat of mutual suicide." With U.S. and Soviet strategic nuclear forces tending to cancel each other out, Washington needs adequate nonatomic forces to counter threats that could range from an armored invasion of Germany to a brushfire war in the Third World. Says Jones: "If you don't have the capability to respond around the world to different crises, then the risks can be very great...
Ground Forces. The Army requires more trucks, supplies and ammunition. In mid-September, Nunn charged that the Army had only "one-third of the ammunition and equipment it needs to ... sustain simultaneously a war in Europe and a minor contingency in the Middle East or outside of Europe." Nunn was referring to the official U.S. doctrine of having the resources to fight 1½ wars at the same time: a major confrontation with the Soviets in Europe, plus a regional skirmish. Said Nunn: "In the category of tank ammunition designed specifically to destroy other tanks, the Army has on hand about...
...other victim was Fu Yuehua, 34, a female activist who was tried for "libeling" a party leader by falsely accusing him of rape. She had helped organize mass demonstrations in the Chinese capital on the third anniversary of Chou's death last January. The crackdown on dissidents was castigated by State Department Spokesman Hodding Carter III, who for the first time since Washington established relations with Peking openly criticized China's human rights practices. It remains to be seen whether tough penal ties will squelch the reforming zeal of Chi na's small but active democratic move...
...closed down during World War II, but before and after, during the hapless Third and the revolving-door Fourth Republic, stirred its editors to punishing glee. Le Canard also thrives on serious controversy. Says Chief Editor Roger Fressoz (pen name: Andre Ribaud): "We began doing more investigative reporting with the Algerian War, when French citizens began to ask for more information...
Princeton's Lynn Jennings scorched a record-shattering path across Franklin Park yesterday and led the Tigers to a victory in the Big Three meet, downing second place Harvard and third place Yale...