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...response at all. From a strategic point of view. Kissinger stated that the capability of response was vital to American security interests; from a technical viewpoint, he argued that it would be possible to choose a limit on the nuclear scale up to which it would be possible to threaten an escalation-and, if necessary, to carry out the threat...
...knows how many unexploded bombs and shells lie beneath the azure waters of the Suez Canal to threaten dredging operations-even if the Egyptians and Israelis should come to terms on reopening the waterway. The known obstacles, however, are relatively few: the sister passenger steamers Mecca and Ismailia, scuttled on orders of Egypt's late President Nasser at the start of the 1967 Arab-Israeli war; part of a pontoon bridge; two small tugs sunk downstream from the city of Ismailia; and the wreckage of a barge twelve miles north of Suez. The Egyptians calculate that they could reopen...
...broods Houston's larger protagonist: nature in the Arctic, the violent rhythm of storms and seasons. There is an almost Homeric hunt for walrus, and a winter dance of exquisite magic and sexuality. Eventually a moment comes in the long winter when the whalers, ugly but not serious, threaten an Eskimo with knives. In his code, it is a disastrous challenge: he must either kill the kalunait or exile himself. "But killing men was not our custom," says Avinga, "and it had not been done in living memory." With no reasonable solution possible, the Eskimo simply withdraws...
Investigators at Harvard have found that chemical pollutants seriously cripple the capacity of marine bacteria to find food, and so may threaten the essential role of bacteria in the ocean food chain...
...Movie bombs and kills him for Hollywood. "That wouldn't bother me . . . then I'd be just like Orson Welles." Hopper seems a victim of his own method of production: a man whose love for the camera allows him to project personal fantasy-but whose camera vision and obsessions threaten to cut him off entirely from reality...