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...Chinese are convinced that Viet Nam is bent on dominating Southeast Asia through a tripartite Indochinese socialist union that would include Kampuchea and Laos. Peking also fears that Hanoi's actions are part of a larger Soviet scheme to threaten China's southern flank. Aside from launching their brief attack across Viet Nam's northern border in early 1979, the Chinese have been giving weapons and supplies to the remaining Khmer Rouge guerrillas in Kampuchea. Hanoi, for its part, contends that its troops were sent into Kampuchea partly to end Pol Pot's killing spree...
Prospects for a quiet summer in Cambridge are not good. War is brewing. Lines are drawn. Initial thrusts have been met, parried, and returned. The early private skirmishes in the argument over private vs. municipal ownership of a cable TV franchise in Cambridge threaten to erupt into a full-scale battle by November, at which time the city's voters will be asked to register their opinion on the matter in a public referendum...
Such bad news would be good medicine if it were really justified. But to substantiate his claim, Reagan relies on simplistic charts and selective statistics. His foremost concerns are land-based intercontinental ballistic missile warheads that can reach the U.S. or intermediate-range ones that threaten Western Europe. In neither case is Reagan fantasizing the problem, but he is exaggerating it. The Soviet advantage in ICBMS is offset by an array of American assets: more and better submarine-launched weapons, a superior Navy and Air Force and a cruise-missile program that is much further along...
INDEED, a deterrent second strike is aimed not at hardened silos but at eminently vulnerable cities. If current missiles threaten to turn Moscow into a 600-foot crater, does the prospect of an 800-foot crater act as a substantially greater deterrent? The MX is tailor-made for one purpose the destruction of Soviet missiles in their silos...
...until the dentist is done. Or tell it to the Baltimore lawyer who makes telephone calls while driving to and from Annapolis, thus extending his billable hours. With the technology behind pagers and mobile telephones becoming increasingly available and inexpensive, the handy little devices promise-or is the word threaten?-to become ubiquitous...