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...arms race and excessive military spending threaten our security in ways that even those who are more concerned with the struggle for daily survival than the risk of nuclear war can understand. Military spending shares the responsibility for our most serious economic problems--inflation and unemployment. Economists recognize that arms spending is the most inflationary form of government spending, sapping resources without providing goods for the marketplace. As our sophisticated weapons continue to technologically lead the world, our civilian industries are faltering in their competition with West Germany and Japan, which have renounced high military spending in favor of supporting...
...intimidation and threats. At this point, the greatest threat to American national security is posed, not by the Russians, the Salvadorans. The Chinese, the Cubans, or the Iranians, but by our own excessive military spending, its deleterious effect on our economy, and the new weapons programs which ultimately threaten our own destruction...
...trying to do was stop him from beating Sven," Matthews said, adding that the police used unnecessary force because he did nothing to threaten them...
Lifetime Employment. Upwards of 35% of Japan's work force is covered by this paternalistic employment practice, which requires sacrifice on the part of all company employees when recession or other problems threaten a firm with layoffs. Instead of jettisoning workers, company managers will pare down paychecks for everyone, including themselves, normally by either withholding or deferring payment of the large, twice-yearly bonuses that both bosses and employees receive. Such actions foster a sense of shared experience by everyone...
...plants, and can produce all the weapons-grade material that it wants. It also has weapons and delivery systems to launch strikes into any part of Africa that it chooses. When the inevitable showdown in Southern Africa finally arrives in its fullest, the white regime will be able to threaten the people of the continent with nuclear Armageddon. Indeed it is doing so already. "South Africa's nuclear dominance is the result of a conscious decision of the regime to achieve military supremacy..." says Morton...