Word: ued
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Soviet-U.S. nuclear balance: The principal thrust of our nuclear doctrine has always been, and continues to be, retaliatory. We have concentrated on our ability to launch a second strike against their cities and industries if they were to attack us first. Soviet doctrine and deployments have been primarily ones of counterforce (the ability to destroy military targets). Counterforce suggests first strike rather than retaliation. The reason that we are now building up our own counterforce ability is not because we contemplate a first strike but because we are increasingly concerned that our traditional deterrent has ceased...
...cartoonist sketching the standard route to the Harvard English Department would probably draw a map something like this; beginning within the venerable wills of Harvard Yard, the road would stretch through Yale or Oxford before making a U and returning to its place of origin. On the way, the ambitious traveller would acquire an appropriate understanding of Shakespeare, Milton and Joyce and a slightly varied collection of tweed or grey flannel suits...
...entertainment, especially Disney and James Bond. But in 1981 there were significant local advances. A low-budget expose of youthful degeneracy in Berlin, Christiane F., became the biggest German moneymaker in the nation's history; and right behind Christiane F. was Das Boot (The Boat), a $12 million U-boat melodrama. Now, these two films and three others are entering American release, with hopes high and cinematic intelligence flaring. Make no mistake: the Germans are here...
...Here are the hide-and-seek battles, the claustrophobic tensions, the respect for a valiant enemy. As with David, the novelty here is getting the inside German view. Das Boot has thrills aplenty; it moves full speed ahead through its 2½-hr. running time. Of the 40,000 U-boat men in World War II, 28,000 were killed, and the film is careful to emphasize the fatal futility of all this derring-do. Still, Das Boot should be instructive for American audiences. It shows that some of the bad guys were good guys...
Throughout the early 1970s, as Iran's importance as a U.S. ally grew, Washington remained generally confident about its ties with Tehran. "Iran-U.S. relations with the Shah are excellent," wrote U.S. Ambassador Richard Helms in 1974. But Helms also advised that embassy officials take "great care" in talking to dissidents lest the Shah be offended. U.S. intelligence thus remained fragmentary, crippling U.S. efforts to under stand the growing opposition that would eventually topple the Peacock Throne...