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Working behind the scenes to settle the crisis, the United States should put extra pressure on Argentina to withdraw and should not hesitate to threaten that nation with economic sanctions and bans on imports. As long as the United States has chosen to establish cordial ties with Argentina, it must use that economic lever age as a bargaining chip...
...humanity becomes clear--not the thousand gleaming missiles in their silos, but the sort of acting and non-thinking that put and keep them there. Rest assured that, in the absence of nuclear weapons, some nation would appear with a deadly virus, poisonous gas, or other awful weapon to threaten civilization. The real danger is humanity itself when the individual and his or her mind and its potential are devalued into nothingness...
...Angeles Times last January, that the U.S. could survive a nuclear war if enough people dug homemade shelters. The Senators wanted to use Jones' testimony to publicize the Administration's casual attitude toward limited nuclear war and its unwarranted faith in civil defense, but they had to threaten a subpoena before a reluctant Pentagon would allow him to appear. Jones was subdued and careful. In a barely audible voice, he said he had not meant to "imply that nuclear war was anything less than a terrible disaster." He left it to Assistant Secretary of Defense Richard Perle...
Zenkali lies on the line where the waters of the Indian and Pacific oceans meet and merge. But don't look for it; the island exists only in the febrile imaginings of Gerald Durrell. The author of some 15 nature and travel books is unlikely to threaten the reputation of his brother Novelist Lawrence Durrell (The Alexandria Quartet). But there is a sting in his tale of The Mockery Bird, and a pawky satire familiar to viewers of such politi cal cartoons as The Mouse That Roared...
Whatever the Soviets do, or threaten to do, the U.S. must be in a position to do something worse, and to do it with such speed, precision and force that the Kremlin will not escalate the conflict to a higher and wider level of destruction. Ideally, the very existence of the American capability is supposed to deter the Soviets from seriously considering an attack, much less attempting...