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Publicity literature supplied by Rock- well International, a defense contractor, quotes Admiral Thomas Moorer, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, as saying, "Without the B-1 to replace the aging B-52, the triad of our defenses will suffer a serious and perhaps fatal imbalance in the 1980-90 time period...
...would save billions of dollars and still leave the U.S. its missile-firing submarines and nuclear bombers. But Pentagon strategists point out that bombers can be shot down and that eventually submarines may also become vulnerable. They prefer to complicate the Russians' offensive problems by relying on the present triad nuclear force...
...Triad seems to be about a triangular love relationship in which a girl (Antoinette Sibley) breaks up an affair between two male homosexuals (Anthony Dowell and Wayne Eagling). The program reveals, however, that the boys are brothers. Fraternal love is admittedly difficult to convey these days, but in this short work MacMillan has compounded the problem by his cramped and largely uninteresting choreography...
NONE OF THE other pieces even approached the Bach. A Muzio Clementi Symphony in B-flat was simply poor music with exposed transitions and bridges (where they existed), trite sequences, and general harmonic and melodic poverty. Typical was an inane arpeggiated triad figure used as melody in the first movement. At least the bubbly rococo confusion of sound obscured the meagre content of the fast movements; absolutely nothing could save the andante...
...could retain its pre-eminence in the world without maintaining close ties with Europe. Despite Japan's surging economic might and China's waxing nuclear arsenal, Europe alone possesses the talented population, economic power, technological skills, and geographic position to rank, along with the U.S. and Russia, in the triad of world powers...