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...raucous school boycott in New York City reflects the nationwide fear of the fatal disease. The medical facts are far less frightening than the myths. Reagan pre- empts Congress with compromises on South Africa and protectionism. Inside the three legs of the strategic Triad. Test of a satellite killer. Neo- Nazis go on trial in Seattle. Farm Aid: a benefit concert is planned...
...possibility, considered remote by most experts, that the Walkers had compromised the security of America's sea-based strategic missile force. U.S. military planners contend that land-based missiles and bombers are highly vulnerable to Soviet pre-emptive attack. Only the sea leg of America's nuclear triad is thought to be impervious to detection. If either side could knock out the other's subs, the balance of terror would be drastically changed...
...Susan Cheever write Home Before Dark, a "biographical memoir" of her father -- published a mere two years after his death, and revealing his hidden triad of dark sins: alcoholism, marital strife, and homosexuality...
Witnesses described the Chinese crime incursion as the work of ancient Triads (the name stems from their triangular symbol). Police Chief Jon Elder of Monterey Park, a Los Angeles suburb, testified that his city had had eight shootings in just the past few months among Asian gangs seeking "power and supremacy" in the town, which has a population that is 35% Asian. He described one victim of a ritual Triad punishment as having been slashed 200 times with a saber, deliberately left maimed but alive. A commission investigator claimed that a prosperous businessman in Manhattan's Chinatown, Edward...
...aircraft, surface ships, submarines, and most of all, rockets." We are told that SALT I and II tended to codify the trends in each side's weapon inventory--for the Soviets' development of heavy, land-based, multiple warhead intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs): for the U.S., reliance on a strategic "triad" of ICBMs, submarine-launched missiles, and intercontinental bombers. Talbott acknowledges the relative danger involved in the Soviet choice of arsenal, which is easily targetable and therefore might predispose them toward a policy of "launch first, ask questions later." And we are told that SALT II left the Soviets with...